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HTML Templates (HTMPL Form)

Forms in the CA SDM web interface are delivered as HTML templates, in files with a suffix of .htmpl. These are called HTMPL forms in the remainder of this document.

An HTMPL form contains standard HTML (including JavaScript) plus language extensions that are interpreted by a CA SDM server daemon (or service) called the web engine that delivers standard HTML to the browser. These extensions are:

• References to server variables. These are indicated by a name beginning with a dollar sign. They can be the values of columns in the CA SDM database, references to web engine configuration properties, or other server information.
• Special tags directing the web engine to perform tasks on the server, such as read information from the CA SDM database. These tags have names of the form <PDM_...> or <pdm_...>.

Note: You do not need to understand the HTMPL extensions or even HTML itself to be able to customize CA SDM forms with WSP.

More information:

Server Variables

HTMPL Tags