Use "Connect" Tags within Presentation Templates and Components
Overview
"Connect" tags are advanced Web Content Management tags that can be used to retrieve data from external sources and apply Custom Caching.
There are two methods available to retrieve and display data in WCM Presentation Templates or Components using the WCM application:
- Embedding "Connect" tags in HTML files.
- Developing POST/GET methods using "Connect" Tags. These can be used in Presentation Templates and some Components to retrieve data from various sources.
Example:
The WCM application has a feature that allows a section of a web page to be "stripped" and displayed within another page. The following code could be entered within a table cell of a WCM Page design:
<connect MOD="WEB" SRV="HTML" ACTION="http://www.ibm.com/example.html"> </connect>When the WCM Presentation Template is rendered, the section of the Presentation Template using the "Connect" code would display the table from the example.html file from the ibm.com site.
Process Connect Tags must be selected in a Presentation Template form for "Connect" tags to be processed.
Parent topic: Presentation Template Examples.
Parent topic: Component Design Examples.
Parent topic: Displaying WCM Content.
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