# Web Functions

> You can use web functions in custom tables and fields.

*Source: https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/web-functions.htm*

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Last updated: June 11, 2026

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You can use web functions in custom tables and fields. See [Adding Custom Tables](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/adding-a-custom-table.md) and [Defining and Editing Field Formulas](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/editing-field-formulas.md) for further details.

**Note:**

In all circumstances, the URL must include 'http://'. For example, if the URL is www.sisense.com, the syntax should
be GetFile ('http:// www.sisense.com')

Following are descriptions for the web functions:

**DomainIs: true/false DomainIs (URL,compared domain)**
  
Get whether the given urls domain matches the given domain. For example, 'http://www.wikipedia.org' matches org,
wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org.

**GetFile: string GetFile (url)**
  
Extract the filename portion of the path in the given url and returns it.

The filename is everything after the last slash in the path.

**GetHost: string GetHost (url)**
  
Extract host from the given url, for example 'www.wikipedia.org' in 'http://www.wikipedia.org'

**GetPassword: string GetPassword (url)**
  
Extract password from the given url.

Specified in the url following the user name, with leading colon (':') and trailing at sign (@), as in
'http://user:password@host/.'

**GetPath: string GetPath (url)**
  
Extract path from the given url.

Path is the url portion following the host name, for example '/wiki/Business\_intelligence' in
  
'http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business\_Intelligence'

**GetPort: string GetPort (url)**
  
Extract port from the given url, parsed as integret, for example 123 in 'http://www.wikipedia.org:123/'

**GetQuery: string GetQuery(url)**
  
Extract the query from the given url.

Specified in the url after the '?' and before (optional) the '#' sign, for example 'par=val' in
'http://www.wikipedia.org/?par=val#ref'.

**GetQueryParamValue (url,param name): string GetQueryParamValue (url,param name)**
  
Extract param value from the given url's query, by the given param name.

Param/Value pairs when supplied, are delimited by an ampersand or a semicolon.

**GetRef: string GetRef (url)**
  
Extract ref from given url.

Specified in the url starting after last appearance of the '#' sign, for example 'ref' in
'http://www.wikipedia.org/?par=val#ref'

**GetScheme: string GetScheme (url)**
  
Extract scheme from given url.

Skips leading spaces and followed colon (':') sign, for example 'http://www.wikipedia.org/'

**GetUserName: string GetUserName (url)**
  
Extract user name from given url.

Specified in the url before the host name and delimited by an '@' as in 'http://user@host/.'

**HasHost: true\false HasHost (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a host.

**HasPassword: true\false HasPassword (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a password.

**HasPath: true\false HasPath (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a path.

**HasPort: true\falseHasPort (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a port.

**HasQuery: true\false HasQuery (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a query.

**HasRef: true\false HasRef (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a ref.

**HasScheme: true\false HasScheme (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a scheme.

**HasUsername: true\false HasUsername (url)**
  
Get whether the given url specifies a user name.

**HostIsIpAddress: true\false HostIsIpAddress (url)**
  
Get whether the given url host name is an ip address.

**IsEmptyUrl: true\false IsEmptyUrl (url)**
  
Get whether the given url is empty.

**IsFileUrl: true\false IsFileUrl (url)**
  
Get whether the given url is a file url.

**IsSecuredUrl: true\false IsSecuredUrl (url)**
  
Get whether the given url scheme indicates a secured connection(https).

**IsStandardScheme: true\false IsStandardScheme (url)**
  
Returns true if the scheme for the current urk is a known 'standard' scheme.

Standard schemes have an authority and a path section (including file:).

**IsValidUrl: true\false IsValidUrl (url)**
  
Get whether the given url has a valid form.

**PathForRequest: true\false PathForRequest (url)**
  
Returns the path that should be sent to the server.

This is the path, parameter, and query portions of the url.

**SchemeIs: true\false SchemeIs (url)**
  
Get whether the given url scheme portion matches the given scheme.