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At the last count, a 3.5.x version of MX produces nine and a half million '''web tags'''! But the file mentioned in previous section contains just 717 items (later versions of MX raise this count by another forty tags or so). How come this discrepancy? | #At the last count, a 3.5.x version of MX produces ''nine and a half million'' '''web tags'''! | ||
# Those millions of web tags can actually produce billions of different outputs! | |||
#But the file mentioned in previous section contains just 717 items (at 3.5.0, later versions of MX raise this count by another forty tags or so). | |||
#How come this discrepancy? | |||
Well each web tag has the general format <tt><#tag_name optional_input_parameter optional_output_parameter></tt> and it is adding | *Well each web tag has the general format <tt><#tag_name optional_input_parameter optional_output_parameter></tt> and it is adding the optional input parameters that allow 717 tag names to define 9½ million values! | ||
*Adding all possible different output parameters generates the billions of different outputs! | |||
Consequently, this article describes: | Consequently, this article describes: | ||
*Over 7 hundred web tags | *Over 7 hundred web tags -'''THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT CONTAIN ALL WEB TAGS AVAILABLE IN LATEST VERSION - It depends on someone updating this article if the developer does not have time to do so''' | ||
*A score of input parameters that modify some of those tags | *A score of input parameters that modify some of those tags (meaning some web tags can represent 12 different months for example) | ||
*The components that make up output parameters | *The components that make up output parameters (a guide to how you modify the output format) | ||
** some control number of decimal places | ** some control number of decimal places | ||
** one controls whether decimal comma | ** one controls whether decimal comma (if used) is replaced by decimal point (useful for some script languages) | ||
**the majority modify almost all web tags that report a time and/or date | **the majority modify the output from almost all web tags that report a time and/or date (there are so many ways to represent times and dates this multiples up the available output considerably) | ||
*The way that some of those date modifiers are used for naming NOAA reports | *The way that some of those date modifiers are used for naming NOAA reports (a simple, but useful table) | ||
The tables below are not able to indicate which of the billions of combinations possible are valid or invalid for | The tables below are not able to indicate which of the billions of combinations possible are valid or invalid for particular tag names nor for particular release versions.. | ||
==Applicability by version and build== | ==Applicability by version and build== | ||
The tip at the start of this article tells you how to check which tags are available in whatever build of Cumulus you are actually using. 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 | The tip at the start of this article tells you how to check which tags are available in whatever build of Cumulus you are actually using. 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 below do not list all web tags at any version, and the tables can't say which modifiers are available at your version. | ||
Because Cumulus 2 is no longer available, it has been ignored in the tables below. | Because Cumulus 2 is no longer available, it has been ignored in the tables below. It never really worked for web page generation, so if you happen to have installed Cumulus 2 from when it was available, you probably don't care which web tags it supports. | ||
[[File:Badge v1.png]]This badge is used to highlight text that applies to Cumulus 1. | [[File:Badge v1.png]]This badge is used to highlight text that applies to Cumulus 1. | ||
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===Inconsistency in use of "T"=== | ===Inconsistency in use of "T"=== | ||
* | *The newer web tags for '''today''' include a "T" as a suffix, the older ones do not. | ||
*"T" | **The lack of a "T" in some today tags causes some confusion with all-time record tags as they have a similar naming structure to these older today web tags. | ||
**This is particularly confusing and is why you must look up today, and all-time, tags in the tables in this article. | |||
*The time-stamp tags add a "T" to the corresponding web tag for the value, but in an inconsistent way: | |||
**the T is a prefix sometimes and | **the T is a prefix sometimes and | ||
**the T is a suffix sometimes | **the T is a suffix sometimes | ||
*This is particularly confusing and is why you must look up time-stamp tags in the tables in this article. | **This is particularly confusing and is why you must look up time-stamp tags in the tables in this article. | ||
===Choosing script variable names derived from tag names=== | ===Choosing script variable names derived from tag names=== | ||
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|Displays the offset of any time from UTC in hours and minutes | |Displays the offset of any time from UTC in hours and minutes | ||
| e.g.-07:00 | | e.g.-07:00 | ||
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