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Given how often a new release alters either what web tags are available or what parameters can be used with particular web tags, it is possible the tables on the linked page do not list all web tags at any version, and the tables can't say which modifiers are available at your version. | Given how often a new release alters either what web tags are available or what parameters can be used with particular web tags, it is possible the tables on the linked page do not list all web tags at any version, and the tables can't say which modifiers are available at your version. | ||
= Beta Builds of Cumulus = | |||
{{Version badge 1}}The [[BETA webtags|additional webtags]] page was created to hold web tags that were not yet available in any Cumulus 1 formal release, but were available in any Beta version that was under development. | |||
[[File:Badge vMx.png]]When development of Cumulus 1 ceased, Cumulus MX was available as a beta. At that time, this article continued to describe web tags available in the final release of Cumulus 1 (builds 1099, 1100, 1101, 1099.1, and 1099.2). Because the output parameters were different for MX, all the MX web tag information was in [[BETA webtags|beta web tags]] article. That was fine in early beta versions of MX because they supported only a small subset of the web tags available for Cumulus 1. | |||
However, as MX development continued more and more web tags were available and maintaining two articles, one for each flavour of Cumulus was impossible. Therefore, MX users had to look at two pages, some of their web tags were in this article some were in that article. Confusingly, some web tags were in both articles, because the parameters that could be used with those tags were increased in MX, so the additional parameters were only shown in the beta article, an example was when the moon web tags had parameters added to control the output from build 3047, these were added to the Beta article. | |||
When Mark Crossley brought MX out of Beta, all the web tags that were on that page were moved into this article, and it was made clear which flavours each web tag was available in (excluding Cumulus 2). | |||
The developer of MX new releases normally shares a new version of MX first as beta by sending the distribution in an email to a number of Cumulus users. They respond by email, with the intension any issues can be ironed out before the distribution is made available as a public release. Given the number of weather station types supported and the complexity of options for using Cumulus, this does not always ensure all ways in which MX can be used are tested, especially as the Cumulus Users given the beta test zip might not use all the features that have been modified in a particular development. | |||
Although such releases often add additional web tags, any additional web tags are currently being entered into this article and no new MX web tags had been added to beta article since that move of the earlier ones into this article. | |||
=Cumulus MX= | =Cumulus MX= | ||
