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Tokens
When looking at the coding of any html page or form in the Web Server directory (or using a 3rd party software editor), you'll note many elements in this format:

<!--{scope}-->

This element is referred to as a "token." Tokens are placeholders for information. When a token is placed in a page, the Web server knows to look somewhere else for the data or information and pulls it into the page when it is displayed by a client browser.



Tokens cannot be seen by viewing code source in a client browser. What you see there is the result of the token.

Tokens themselves are not editable by the library. However, there are some tokens that act as placeholders for information that is under the library's control.

For those tokens, that contain information that the library does not have access to, the library may replace the token in the html page with the actually coding that the token produces. We'll see some examples of both concepts further on in this tutorial.



Just because a token works in one page, does not mean it will work in another. For this reason, Innovative does not provide a list of all possible tokens. So, when thinking of adding a token, take a look at the Innovative Guide & Reference page for the web page or form that you would like to edit. The tokens listed therein are for this specific page.