Appendix B Gateway Directives; Introduction - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

This appendix describes directives used in gateway HTML object class and search
result templates. The appendix contains the following sections:
• Introduction (page 93)
• Context-Related Directives (page 95)
• Entry-Related Directives (page 96)
• Miscellaneous Directives (page 108)

Introduction

The display of LDAP directory information is controlled by HTML template files
containing directives. Directives are HTML comments that can be interpreted by
the gateway CGIs.
The most commonly used directive is
present in LDAP entries. Here are some other examples of directives:
<!-- DS_HELPBUTTON "topic=HELP-ME-NOW" -->
<!-- DS_ATTRIBUTE "attr=sn" "size=>20" -->
<!-- IF "BoundAsThisEntry" -->
<!-- ENDIF -->
NOTE
With the exception of
beginning of a line and be contained on a single line in the HTML
file. Most of the Directory Server Gateway directives begin with
.
DS_
Gateway Directives
, used to display attributes
DS_ATTRIBUTE
, each directive must start at the
GCONTEXT
Appendix B
93