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Render Tags

CS-Direct renders content in three ways:

• By rendering pages and pagelets into static HTML files through the Export to Disk publishing method.

• By rendering pages and pagelets when a visitor requests them on a dynamic public site.

• By rendering assets in response to the Preview function on a CS-Direct management or development system.

CS-Direct determines how to render content by using an argument named rendermode, which has four valid settings:

• DEPS - Used when the system calculates which assets are dependent on the assets being approved

• export - CS-Direct uses the Export to Disk publishing method to create static HTML files

• live - CS-Direct invokes Content Server to serve content dynamically

• preview - CS-Direct invokes Content Server to render a selected asset in a browser pointed at a CS-Direct management or development system

rendermode is set through the resargs of page entries in the SiteCatalog table or in the URL.

When CS-Direct creates page entries for templates, it sets rendermode as an argument in the resargs2 column for that entry and sets it to live. If you export or preview an asset that uses that template, CS-Direct sets the rendermode to export or preview, as appropriate.

The RENDER tags process your CS-Direct page and element requests and create URLs and arguments for URLs. Some of the tags (RENDER.CALLELEMENT and RENDER.SATELLITEPAGE , for example) function similarly to tags that are available through Content Server or CS-Satellite. However, the RENDER tags preserve the CS-Direct rendering environment and the variables needed in that environment without requiring additional code.

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