Principal color
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Basic specification
 
Visible name Principal color
Typical usage The most prominent colors typically seen in flowers of this species.
Visible display type Displayed using a drop-down list with an embedded color wheel.  The built-in color name spell-checker is automatically invoked during typing.
Data entry view Flower view

Storage details
 
SQL name FlowerPrincipalColor
Storage type A text value up to 80 characters in length. 

Multiple colors are separated by using commas.

Import / export notes

When importing and exporting the column name for this item is FlowerPrincipalColor.
When importing with the Merge option, the existing comma-separated values of this item will be merged with the values specified in the input file.
 
Action File type Notes
Import Delimited file A comma-separated list of colors surrounded by double quotes.
XML file A comma-separated list of colors.
Export Delimited file A comma-separated list of colors surrounded by double quotes.
XML file A comma-separated list of colors.

Publication templates

The replacement tag is <cb:FlowerPrincipalColor>. The possible attributes for this tag are shown below. Values marked with an asterisk are used by default.
 
Attribute Possible values Notes
graphics on * A color wheel representing the interpreted colors of this item is placed on the HTML page.
off The color wheel is not shown.
text on * The comma-separated list of colors is written to the document.
off No text is written.

 

For similar pages in the "Specifications" series see:

   Alphabetical index to column specifications

 

For an index to other topics see

   Specimen

 

Last reviewed March 25, 2004   

 

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