HTMLBusiness Language Reference

HTMLBusiness is an SAP-specific macro language that enables the Internet Transaction Server (ITS) to merge SAP transaction screen data dynamically into HTML templates.

When a user starts a screen-based Internet application from a Web browser, this triggers an ITS service, which corresponds to an SAP transaction. For each SAP transaction screen, there is an HTML template, which contains standard HTML code and HTMLBusiness statements.

When SAP transaction screen data is passed to the ITS at runtime, the HTMLBusiness interpreter evaluates the HTMLBusiness statements and the ITS merges the data into HTML templates, which are displayed in the user's Web browser.

HTMLBusiness is syntactically similar to C.

To differentiate HTMLBusiness from standard HTML, the ITS uses the following delimiters:

• HTML-style tags

  <server> ... </server>

• Back quotes

  ` ... `

By using these delimiters to enclose HTMLBusiness expressions, you do not have to implement multiple tags or mark methods in HTML pages. Also, you can use any suitable HTML authoring tool when writing HTML code to design Web pages.