Basic specification
| Overall spread |
| How wide is a typical specimen at maturity. This is often referred to by nursery labels as "planting distance" or "spacing". |
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Displayed using a special sliding measurement manipulator. |
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Life cycle view |
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Storage details
OverallSpreadMin
OverallSpreadMax |
| Two integer fields representing the lowest and
highest values of the range. If the current customization is set to
"U.S. Customary" the units of these fields are inches. If the
current customization is set to "Metric" the units of these fields are
centimeters. |
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Import / export notes
When importing and exporting the column names for this item are
OverallSpreadMin
and OverallSpreadMax.
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 simple integers representing the
number of units (inches or centimeters). Alternatively these
fields may be formatted using the single quote symbol which
represents feet and the double quote symbol which represents inches
or may be followed by the abbreviation "cm" for centimeters or "m"
for meters. |
| XML file |
Each field must be in integer format without the
use of symbols or abbreviations. |
| Delimited file |
Written out using a notation something like:
9"
1' 6"
3'
25cm
2m |
| XML file |
Written out in integer format without the use of
symbols or abbreviations |
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Publication templates
The replacement tag is <cb:OverallSpreadMin>.
Note that the complimentary tag for OverallSpreadMax is not used; simply
including the tag OverallSpreadMin will suffice to display both portions of the
range. If the minimum and maximum are identical a single value is
displayed rather than a range.
The possible attributes for this tag are shown below.
Values marked with an asterisk are used by default.
| on * |
An iconic symbol for "spread" is inserted into
the HTML document. |
| off |
No symbol is inserted. |
| on * |
A measurement range written something like this:
3"
6" - 1'
2' - 3'
10cm
20cm - 40cm
1m
1.5m - 3m |
| 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
