Template example

This example shows one of the default templates, table.html, that is supplied with Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.

Each line number is displayed in square brackets:

<!-- ENABLE:SMARTPAGE -->
<!-- Validate: [all,redirect.html] -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>
              <!-- INSERT:TABLEVIEW[<NCO_V type="str" default="">Map_Name</NCO_V>
            /<NCO_V type="str" default="">System_Filter</NCO_V>] -->      
   </body>
</html>

The insert:TABLEVIEW command cannot include carriage returns.

In this example, the template file contains a SmartPage command for displaying a Table View. The insert:TABLEVIEW command has two attributes: Map_Name and System_Filter . Instead of a static data entry for each attribute value, the source contains an <NCO_V> element, the attributes of which are as follows.

type=type

This entry specifies the type of variable data that the <NCO_V> tag can receive from the URL. The data types are as follows:

str: A text string that can include any text except quotation marks.
BOOLEAN: Used for attribute entries such as showinframe in the insert:AEL SmartPage tag. Permitted values are true or false.
number: Any whole integer. Used for attribute entries such as monitorwidth in the insert:FILTERPAGE tag.

default=value

This entry specifies the default variable value that is used if one is not provided by the URL.

In the case of the insert:TABLEVIEW command, the attributes are names, and therefore strings. The expected variable data for both <NCO_V> instances is set to str. No default attributes are provided, so both default entries are empty.

The text between the opening and closing <NCO_V> tags establishes the variable name that the URL uses to establish a name-value pair. When you specify a variable name, the text must be alphanumeric and multiple words must be separated by an underscore. For example, Map_Name. Variable entries must be separated by a comma.

The URL of template pages containing variable data must be in the following format:

$(SERVER)/path/filename?variable1=variabledata1&variable2=variabledata2

Where path is the path to the template location, filename is the name of the template Web page, variable is the variable enclosed within the <NCO_V> element, and variabledata is the string, Boolean, or numeric entry that you want to populate the variable. For example:

$(SERVER)/Template/table.html?Map_Name=Example_Europe&System_Filter=Example_All