Introduction

OScript is Open Text's language for developing and customizing software applications within the Livelink Builder. It is one of Livelink's most powerful features because it allows you to control the appearance and behavior of a Livelink application. Using OScript, you can add to or modify functionality, perform database operations, manipulate external files, and communicate with other applications. In addition, OScript is the foundation of Open Text's hybrid HTML generation language, WebLingo.

OScript's built-in functions and easy-to-learn syntax allow you to become productive quickly, while providing the robust and extensible environment needed to build complex applications. This manual provides information about the basic structure of the OScript language and high-level information about Livelink environment-specific scripting concepts, and is organized into the following sections:

• Notational Conventions—contains information about the notational conventions used in this document
  
  
• Variables—contains information about declaration and scope of variables
  
  
• Preprocessor Directives—contains information about the types of preprocessor directives that OScript supports
  
  
• Data Types—contains information about the fundamental types of values that can be manipulated using OScript
  
  
• Operators—contains information about the types of operators that OScript supports
  
  
• Special Characters—contains information about special characters OScript supports for comments, labels, line continuation, and line termination
  
  
• Control Statements—contains information about the branching and looping constructs that OScript supports, and includes examples of these control statements
  
  
• Functions—contains information about creating user-defined functions, including declaration, return values, calling conventions, and recursion
  
  
• Reserved Words—contains a list of categories of reserved words and examples
  
  
• WebLingo—contains information on how to include OScript in HTML files
  
  
• Xlates—contains information about internationalizing Livelink using OScript