Content Server-Specific Values

Before editing the HTML file exported from Content Server, you should understand how the Forms module works and what elements in the HTML file are essential to a Form's Content Server functionality.

As noted in the Personal Profile Form Example, you can use any HTML editor to edit the HTML file, except for Microsoft Front Page Express. Unlike the full version of Front Page, Front Page Express does not support the use of square brackets in field names.

As you can see in the HTML code of an exported Form, as well as in Figure 1-3 in Edit an Exported HTML Form Example, Content Server uses brackets to assign values to the data entered in Form fields. Immediately below the <BODY> tag are two lines of code that place two fields, func and LL_FUNC_VALUES, on the Form.

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="func" VALUE="[LL_FUNC /]">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="LL_FUNC_VALUES" VALUE="[LL_FUNC_VALUES /]">

Content Server assigns these fields TYPE="HIDDEN" therefore they do not display, but both fields are required by Content Server so you should not alter them.

Toward the end of the HTML body section is some code that creates the Apply and Reset buttons on the Form and includes code to handle the submission of the Form in Content Server. You can edit the display name, which is found in the VALUE field. The entry VALUE="Submit This Form" will appear in the applyButton line of code if you made the changes detailed in To edit the HTML of the Exported Form Template. If you did not make this change, the value will read VALUE="Apply". Open Text recommends that you do not edit any other field.

<INPUT CLASS="applyButton" TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Submit This Form" NAME="IgnoreMe"
ONCLICK="doSubmit( document.myForm );"> 
<INPUT CLASS="resetButton" TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset">

Throughout the HTML file are Form fields with the Content Server-specific values LL_FormTag. These values tell Content Server what each field is and, therefore, how to handle the data entered in it.

For more information, see Edit an Exported HTML Form Example.