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Content Server renders content in three ways:
CS determines how to render content by using an argument named rendermode
, which has three primary settings:
export
- uses the Export to Disk publishing method to create static HTML fileslive
- invokes Content Server to serve content dynamicallypreview
- invokes Content Server to render a selected asset in a browser pointed at a management or development systemrendermode
is set through the resargs
of page entries in the SiteCatalog table. When CS-Direct creates page entries for templates, it sets rendermode
as an argument in the resargs
columns for that entry and sets it to live
. If you export or preview an asset that uses that template, CS-Direct sets rendermode to export
or preview
, as appropriate.
The render
tags process your 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.