Call a Report by Report Number

Prototype for Establishing Links to Documents in GPO WAIS Databases

Demonstration Page

This page demonstrates the HTML coding necessary to link directly to House, Senate and Executive reports on GPO's WAIS Servers. HTML code from these pages could be copied to web sites other than GPO, (such as the House or Senate), to allow direct linking to GPO databases through the use of CGI scripting. Similar scripts could be developed to access other GPO databases. Three different interfaces are demonstated here, 1) a text link, 2) a graphic button, 3) a form. If an external site wanted to link to a specific document either of the first two are appropriate. The form provides access to multiple documents by report number.

Try clicking here for the PDF file of Senate Report 210 of the 104th Congress or--
Text file of Senate Report 210 of the 104th Congress or--

Senate Report 210 is available as or

Select the type of report, file format, report number, and Congress, then click on SUBMIT.

The query string is in a human readable format so that it could be modified by non GPO web developers.

Acceptable values for each of the fields are as follows:

SHorE = senate, house, executive
TXorPDF = text, PDF
ReportNo = a valid report number from an officially released report
Congress = 104

EXAMPLE QUERY STRING:

<A HREF="http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/reports.cgi?SHorE=senate&TXorPDF=PDF&ReportNo=210&Congress=104">
Click here for the PDF of Senate Report 210 </a>

Questions or comments regarding this service? Contact wwwadmin@gpo.gov.

Page #report.html March 26, 1996