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Sites renders content in three ways:
Sites 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 Sites to serve content dynamicallypreview
- invokes Sites 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 Sites 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, Sites 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 Sites or Sites-Satellite. However, the render
tags preserve the Sites rendering environment and the variables needed in that environment without requiring additional code.