Developer’s Guide

8-6 Developer’s Guide
4. Arrange the windows so you can easily go between the blank page
and the CDML Tool.
5. In the CDML Tool, select either the Templates tab or the Tags tab
and click the Refresh button. Then choose your database from the
Database pop-up menu, and the layout that you want to use from the
Layouts pop-up menu.
The layout you choose determines which fields will be accessed.
Otherwise, it does not affect the layout of the web page.
Using the Templates tab
1. With the Templates tab selected, choose a format file from the
Format File (Action) pop-up menu for the type of action that you want
users to perform on your database.
For a description of each format file, see “Customizing a format file
template” on page 8-7.
2. Click the Copy to clipboard button.
3. Paste the template into your blank HTML page. (If you’re using an
HTML authoring program, make sure to paste the template into the
HTML source.)
Using the Tags tab
1. With the Tags tab selected, choose a category from the Category
pop-up menu and then click the Refresh button to update the type of
tags listed in the Tags pop-up menu.
For a description of the categories, see “Categories of CDML tags”
on page 8-8.
2. Choose a tag from the Tags pop-up menu.
If the tag has a corresponding list of parameters or value list options,
those values will appear in the Parameters and Value List pop-up
menus.
3. Choose a parameter or value list option, if applicable, and click the
check box on the left to select your choice. When a value list option
is selected, the parameter appears in the CDML Syntax box.
For example, the Check boxes tag in the Fields (Add) Dynamic category
includes a list of encoding parameters you can choose from (Raw,
HTML, Break, Display, and URL) and a choice of two value list
parameters (Value List Name or Yes/No).
[FMP-ValueList: Value List Name]
[FMP-ValueList: Yes/No]
The HTML parameter is selected by default for the [FMP-Field]
replacement tag.
For information, see “Using an encoding parameter with a CDML
replacement tag” on page 8-14 and the individual tag descriptions in
the Tag Index tab of the CDML Reference (described in “About the
CDML Reference database” on page 8-11).
4. View the tag’s syntax in the box at the bottom of the CDML Tool
window.
Click to expand the Tag
Description box
The Tags tab in the CDML Tool