Bamboo's annual gift to the SharePoint community, our holiday release of the upgraded World Clock & Weather Web Part is now available as a free download at the Bamboo storefront. As you will recall, last year's offering included such holiday-themed features as the ability to display snow falling on your Web Part page and a customizable holiday message. In our latest release, those festive features are now joined by a pair of features that many users have requested: the ability to configure detailed multi-day forecasts, and to show a chosen display name.
You'll find the ability to visually display detailed multi-day forecast information as a new configurable option in the Web Part's task pane under the Show Weather heading. Simply choose to display the Detailed forecast in option to suit your preference: None, Two-day, Three-day, or Five-day:
The ability to show a Display Name for any available location is accomplished by entering a Display Name in the appropriate column of the task pane. The manually entered Display Name will override the Location field and will be displayed in your Web Part:
You can see the results of these configurations in the screenshot below, wherein the name of Bamboo's U.S. headquarters location remains visible as Reston, VA (since no Display Name was entered), but our office in Vietnam shows the requested Display Name of Saigon overriding the Location of Ho Chi Minh City. This image also illustrates the result of clicking the Detailed Forecast hyperlink on the Web Part, displaying the five-day forecast of detailed information as requested:
We've also updated the graphics with this release, softening some of the hard edges of the weather icons for a more pleasing experience.
Now if only the improved World Clock & Weather Web Part only had the ability to increase temperatures here in northern Virginia, which would spare me from having to continue shoveling my way out of the avalanche of snow that blanketed the D.C. area over the weekend. Maybe I'll put that in as a request for next year's edition ... after all, if anyone can add such a feature, it's Bamboo's engineering team!
Posted
Dec 21 2009, 02:00 PM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.