ProSoft Technology 5201-104S-103M - Manual (Page 25)

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September 28, 2005
5.7 Data Display
ProSoft Technology, Inc. modules provide the facility to generate Web pages to a
remote browser on the network using the http service port 80. Several Web
pages are built into the software and require no special handling. The user can
construct custom Web pages to be generated by the program. These custom
pages can contain data from the virtual database, images (static and dynamic)
and text (static and dynamic). The following steps should be followed to use this
feature:
1
Use any standard Web page authoring tool or word processor that can
generate a standard HTML file for use with an http server.
2 Download these files to the C:\ directory on the module using the FTP server.
3
Test the download files using your Web browser.
The only limit on the number of Web pages that can be generated is based on
the amount of available free disk space on the C: drive of the module and the
size of each page.
In order to include dynamic data from the module into the Web pages, insertion
tags are defined for use by the program. These tags can be placed anywhere in
the constructed HTML Web page. When these tags are recognized by the
module's program while reading in the HTML file to be transferred, the program
will insert the requested data. The following data types can be inserted into the
Web pages: date, time, virtual database values, images selected by the state of a
binary value and text strings selected by the state of a binary value. Each special
insertion tag is discussed below:
5.7.1 <--MOD_NAME -->
This tag displays the module name defined in the configuration file. This name
can be used to identify the module in a large system.
5.7.2 <--MYIP -->
This tag displays the module's IP address.
5.7.3 <--DATE 0 -->
This tag displays the current date in the module. The format of the date displayed
is mm/dd/yyyy (09/20/1999).
5.7.4 <--DATE 1 -->
This tag displays the current date in the module. The format of the date displayed
is mo_text dd, yyyy (September 20, 2005).