Actions and Arguments

This page describes the common actions and arguments used by the Greenstone library server.

a is the main cgi argument and determines which action is used to dipslay the page.

a=p: Page action
Displays 'static' pages, such as home, about, help and preferences pages.

a=q: Query action
Displays search form and results, and optionally search history. Many of the options are set from the preferences page.

The following arguments are only available for MGPP and Lucene collections, which provide form searching.

a=d: Document action
Used for displaying documents and classifiers

a=extlink: External Link action
Handles displaying documents which are external web pages