Basic specification
| Other interest period |
| An all purpose seasonal item (or date range item). Use this item either independent of or in conjunction with the "Other interest" item. |
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Displayed using a calendar date-range manipulator. Seasons may be
defined using an idealized Northern Hemisphere location where each
season is divided into exactly three months. |
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Special qualities view |
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Storage details
OtherInterestBegins
OtherInterestEnds |
| Two database timestamp fields representing the
beginning and ending date of the seasonal period. |
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Import / export notes
When importing and exporting the column names for this item are
OtherInterestBegins
and OtherInterestEnds.
When importing with the Merge option, the existing values for this item will be
completely overwritten by the values specified in the input file.
| Delimited file |
Each of the two fields may be set using a formatted date such as
"Dec 01" or "Dec 31".
Seasons may also be specified by using the following key words
instead of dates:
| spring |
Mar 01 |
May 31 |
| early spring |
Mar 01 |
Mar 31 |
| mid spring |
Apr 01 |
Apr 30 |
| late spring |
May 01 |
May 31 |
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| summer |
Jun 01 |
Aug 31 |
| early summer |
Jun 01 |
Jun 30 |
| mid summer |
Jul 01 |
Jul 31 |
| late summer |
Aug 01 |
Aug 31 |
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| fall |
Sep 01 |
Nov 30 |
| early fall |
Sep 01 |
Sep 30 |
| mid fall |
Oct 01 |
Oct 31 |
| late fall |
Nov 01 |
Nov 30 |
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| winter |
Dec 01 |
Feb 28 |
| early winter |
Dec 01 |
Dec 31 |
| mid winter |
Jan 01 |
Jan 31 |
| late winter |
Feb 01 |
Feb 28 |
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An "unspecified" period may be represented by setting both the
beginning and the ending times to "Jan 01". |
| XML file |
Each field must be in the XML standard format that looks
like: 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z. The year must be set to the
arbitrary value of 2000. The time must be set to midnight.
Only the month and day are meaningful. An "unspecified" period may
be represented by setting both the beginning and the ending times to 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z. |
| Delimited file |
Written out using a format like: "Dec 31". |
| XML file |
The same rules apply as for XML import. |
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Publication templates
The replacement tag is <cb:OtherInterestBegins>.
Note that the complimentary tag for OtherInterestEnds is not used; simply
including the tag OtherInterestBegins will suffice to display both the beginning
and ending dates for the season.
The possible attributes for this tag are shown below.
Values marked with an asterisk are used by default.
| on * |
A date range formatted something like:
"Mar 01 - May 31" |
| 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
