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Thereareafewadvantagestousingremoteresources:

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Theseresourcesarenotservedbyyourserver,savingonspace,bandwidthandprocessing.

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UsingapopularCDNtakesadvantageofcaching-aclienthavingvisitedanotherwebsiteusing

thatsameCDNwillhavethefileincacheandnotre-downloadit,makingforfasterloadtimesfor

theclient.

ToaddaremoteJavaScript:

1. Right-clicktheJavaScriptfolderontheResourcespane,andclickNew Remote JavaScript.

2. EnteranameforthefileasitappearsintheJavaScriptresources.Forbettermanagement,it's

besttousethesamefilenameastheremoteresource.

3. EntertheURLfortheremoteresource.ThismustbeafullURL,includingthehttp://orhttps://pre-

fix,domainname,pathandfilename.

4. Optionally,checkdeferorasynctoaddtheasyncordeferattributetothe<link>elementinthe

<head>ofthesegment.

Deferpostponestheexecutionofthescriptuntilthepagehasfinishedparsing.Thisattributeis

requiredbyAPIslikeGoogleMaps.

Whenasyncischecked,thescriptexecutesasynchronouslywiththerestofthepage(whilethe

pagecontinuestheparsing).

Whenneitheroptionischecked,thescriptisfetchedandexecutedimmediately,whilethepars-

ingofthepageispaused.

5. Optionally,foraCaptureOnTheGoForm,youcancheckUse cached Capture OnTheGo

resource,topreventdownloadingaremoteJavaScriptfileagainifithasbeendownloaded

before.Thefileshouldbeavailableonapubliclyaccessiblelocation,forexample:afolderloc-

ationonacorporatewebsite,hostedbyaCDN(ContentDeliveryNetwork)orsharedviaaWork-

flowprocess.

Note: InWorkflow,whenusingtheCreateWebContenttask,checktheEmbed All Resources

optiontodownloadandembedallremoteresources.(SeeWorkflowHelp:CreateWebContent.)

Tip: Afteraddingtheremotefile,youmayright-clickitandselectDownload Resource.This

allowsyoutomaintainacentralfile,fromwhichyoucanquicklydownloadacopytoyourtem-

platewithouthavingtocopy&paste.

Notethatalocalcopyofaremoteresourceisasnapshot;itisnotautomaticallykeptinsyncwith

itsremotecontent.Youcandownloadtheremoteresourceagaintooverwritethelocalcopywith

updatedcontent.Ifyoudon'twantalocalcopytobeoverwrittenyoushouldrenameitbefore

downloadingtheremoteresourceagain.

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