Resources for templates

Templates, and the resources they use, are stored as attachments to requests of the AR System Resource Definitions form. Three types of resources are available:

  • Template—A text file containing text with parameters.
  • Image—An image file in any format, including GIF or PNG formats.
  • Custom—A file of another type, such as an audio file, that can be presented by a browser.

A template is accessed by using the TEMPLATE function or by binding it to a view field. The template can refer to other resources to include images and other media in the output it produces.

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The following figure shows the form used to store templates and other resources.

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This form includes the following information:

  • Name—The name used to references the resource.
  • Status—Either Active or Inactive. Inactive resources cannot be processed by the client.
  • Type—The type of resource: Template, Image, or Custom.
  • Description—A brief description of the template.
  • Mime type—The Internet media type or MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) type of the resource.
    • For Type set to Template, text/html.
    • For Type set to Image, image/gif or image/png.
    • For Type set to CSS files (.cs), text/css.
    • For Type set to JavaScript (.js), text/javascript.
    • For Type set to Custom, any type entered, for example, audio/mpeg.
  • Subtype—An optional character value that can identify a more specific type to distinguish resources.
  • Locale—The locale of the resource. If specified, AR System server uses this field to select the resource with a given name that matches the user's locale.
  • Application—The name of the application that uses this resource, if any.
  • Resources—An attachment field where the actual HTML text, image, or other resource file is stored.

 

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