Template overview

The Web GUI supports dynamically-processed generic Web pages called templates. Templates contain SmartPage tag instances that are composed of attribute variables rather than hard-coded attribute data entries.

When a template page is displayed, information in the query string of the URL is passed to a corresponding variable placeholder that dynamically populates the SmartPage attribute.

By using templates, you can avoid creating new Web pages or source code entries to accommodate functionally similar page components. Instead, you can create generic pages where the SmartPage component attributes are governed by information that is stored in a hyperlink to the page URL.

Basic templates are supplied with the Web GUI , which you can customize for your own use. The default templates are located in the following directory:

WEBGUI_HOME/etc/templates