vbWeather suggestion

cheesegrits · 08-23-2006, 12:36 PM

At the moment, if the user has not set their weather location, the CMPS home page widget just shows a broken image link and an incomplete form. I didn't check to see what the What's Going On widget at the bottom of the forums page looked like, and now I've set my location I can't test it here because it won't let me un-set my location in the settings.

Anyway, can I suggest that if the user has not set their location, the widget(s) give a brief informative message (something like "To see your local weather in real time, go here and set your location") with a link to the usercp settings page, instead of just being "broken"?

Other than that, excellent job. I especially like the way the settings work.

-- hugh

cheesegrits · 08-23-2006, 12:59 PM

Replying to myself again ... a bad habit I really should break.

Anyway, I just noticed on the July 18th announcement for vbWeather it says "Members who have not set their data will see the same template but with a reminder to choose their location to see their data."

Not withstanding this statement, I definitely saw the broken form on the CMPS home page widget before I set my location, rather than any reminder. I just don't know if the forums Whats Going On widget was the same way.

-- hugh

Code Monkey · 08-23-2006, 07:24 PM

The CMPS part is not done yet. Only the forum one. It's beta.

Code Monkey · 08-23-2006, 09:07 PM

You should be able to see what it looks like at Joystick Required.

cheesegrits · 08-24-2006, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

You should be able to see what it looks like at Joystick Required.

Looks good. I assume if I was registered but hadn't set my location, it would have an appropriate message with a link to the usercp weather options?

BTW, would it be much work to provide either a global ACP option, or a per user option, to display the weather info on all forum pages (maybe just above the Disply Options block), rather than just the main forum directory page?

My board is located in prime tornado AND hurricane country, so my users are more than averagely obsessed with weather.

-- hugh

Code Monkey · 08-24-2006, 06:00 PM

All things are possible. That would most likely need to be a custom modification as most sites would'nt want that much.