Basic specification
| Distribution range |
| The places where this plant is commonly found in the wild today. |
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Displayed in a short list with a special pop-up
window for showing the full list of possible codes. Using the
customize settings area you can easily switch the list of localities
shown here. You can also enter your own customized list.
| World |
contemporary political countries |
| Australia |
states and territories |
| Canada |
provinces and territories |
| Great Britain |
cities, towns, counties |
| New Zealand |
provinces |
| United States of America |
states |
| South Africa |
provinces |
| (custom) |
as defined by you |
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Biodiversity view |
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Storage details
| DistributionRange |
| A text value up to 300 characters in length. |
| Internally the codes are stored rather than the
name of the locality. Non-standard localities are only supported
through the import feature. |
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Import / export notes
When importing and exporting the column name for this item is
DistributionRange.
When importing with the Merge option, the existing semicolon-separated values of this item will be
merged with the values specified in the input file.
| Delimited file |
A semicolon-separated list of locality codes. |
| XML file |
ditto |
| Delimited file |
A semicolon-separated list of locality
codes. |
| XML file |
ditto |
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Publication templates
The replacement tag is <cb:DistributionRange>.
The possible attributes for this tag are shown below.
Values marked with an asterisk are used by default.
| on * |
Output the list of names using an HTML
<table></table> tag pair. Each
locality is placed in a separate row within the table. |
| off |
Output the list of localities separated by spaces. |
| on * |
The color code is
shown. |
| off |
The color code is not shown. |
| on * |
Show the code with the color. |
| off |
Do not show the code with the color. |
| on * |
The text value is shown. Because the
DistributionRange database field stores codes, the text value is in
fact the same as the code. |
| off |
No text is written. |
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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
