Introduction to OScript

OScript is Open Text's language for developing and customizing software applications with the Content Server Integrated Development Environment (CSIDE). It is one of Content Server's most powerful features because it allows you to control the appearance and behavior of a Content Server 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 Content Server environment-specific scripting concepts.

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