There are two primary types of tags specific to Xinet Portal: variable data tags and
Xinet Portal tags. These tags work together to enable Xinet Portal to pull the requested and/or applicable information directly from Xinet for presentation in your Xinet Portal templates. The rest of this section discusses some of the Xinet Portal tags.
Variable data tags discusses the variable data tags.
Appendix: Xinet Portal Tags and Templates presents a full list.
The Xinet Portal tags are simply HTML tags used to designate the beginning and close of page or tabular data to be presented in a Xinet Portal template as determined by the user’s privileges defined by the Xinet administrator. You can recognize a Xinet Portal tag by its preface:
Styles:tmpl or
Styles:sub.
The _table tag defines the directory, volume, or file information to be displayed in a table. This tag also determines whether a directory, volume, or file is hidden or visible. The
_table tags for Xinet Portal include:
The _row tag defines the directory, volume, file, or keyword information to be displayed in a row or rows within a table. When a row has been defined by one of these, it will iterate through all items in the appropriate array (
e.g.,
volume_info for the
volume_row). These tags will be nested within the relevant
_table tag described above. The
_row tags for Xinet Portal
include:
The _cell tag defines the content of directory, volume, or file information to be displayed in a cell within a table row. These tags will be nested within the relevant
_row tag described above. The
_cell tags for Xinet Portal include:
The _select_table tag defines the selection of the compression file type to be utilized when downloading a Collection of assets. The only
_select_table tag for Xinet Portal is the
archive_select_table tag. By default, users will download files as uncompressed ZIP files.
