Types of Fields in Template Editor

The fields available to a template are available in lists in the template editor. The fields have different icons and I was wondering if anyone - other than Andrei (whose answer I would be interested in) - knows what the difference is. I have identified three types:

Icon has a green background (the most common type)
Icon has a blue background (these all appear to be links fields)
Icon has a yellow background (with red foreground)

This color scheme is probably about the most useless feature of OrangeCD :)

Green color corresponds to simple data tags.

Blue color corresponds to clickable links. The start and end tags will produce <A HREF="something"> and </A>.

Yellow color is reserved for any tags that produce multiple values. For example, it's used for tags that enumerate tracks or artists. For example, <dax:track>...</dax:track> will reproduce the content between start and end tag as many times as there are tracks on the album.

I hope this helps!

Andrei

Thanks, Andrei. That is more or less what I expected. I usually try to figure such things out by using them, but I didn't quite know how to use the "yellow" ones. Are all the custom fields simple data tags?

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Originally Posted by Jazz_North

Thanks, Andrei. That is more or less what I expected. I usually try to figure such things out by using them, but I didn't quite know how to use the "yellow" ones. Are all the custom fields simple data tags?

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All the custom fields I've used are simple data tags. If you're asking whether it is possible to iterate over all the custom fields defined for a track or album, I see no way to do that.

However, most of what I know about writing templates I learned by looking at how the default template works. ;)