How to Add Special Effects

How to Add Special Effects

HW17_SpecialEffectsWPP.jpgThe World Clock and Weather Web Part has two special effects that you can select: Rain or Snow. Customize the density of the effect using the scroll bar.

NOTE: enabling these effects will consume additional CPU resources on the client machine.

Column Description
Effect: Choose from Rain or Snow
Density: Use the slider to increase or decrease the amount of snowflakes or raindrops that appear on the page.
Light background: Check this box to make your web part background lighter than the default.
Show holiday message: You can also display a holiday greeting message by entering text in the Show holiday message box. The message will scroll once across the Web Part after the page is loaded, as shown below:HW17_HolidayMessage.jpg

How to Add an App from the Microsoft Store

How to Add an App from the Microsoft Store

After you purchase an App from the Microsoft store, your first step is to add the App to your site.

Step Action Result
1. Open the SharePoint Site to which you want to add the App.
2. In the upper right-hand corner, click the settings icon that looks like a small gear 0002.jpg.
This will display a drop-down menu.
3. Select the option Add an app from the menu. AddAnApp_jpg-725x0.jpg
4. In the left navigation bar, select the option SharePoint Store to open the Microsoft Online Store. SelectSharePointStore.jpg
5. When the Microsoft SharePoint Store opens, a listing of available apps will be displayed. SharePointStore.jpg
6. Locate and click on the App name.
Select ADD IT to add it to your Site’s available Apps.

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Icon-Tip Use the Search function to find all the Bamboo Apps in the Microsoft App Store.
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Highlights of World Clock & Weather

Highlights of World Clock & Weather

WorldClockAndWeather.pngThe Bamboo Solutions World Clock and Weather allows users to display local time and weather for selected major cities around the globe.

This free Web Part allows you to:

  • Show weather or clock by location with temperature, date, and time.
  • Show temperature in Celsius and/or Fahrenheit.
  • Show only date, time and location.
  • Choose from analog or digital clock styles as well as colors.
  • Choose a date and time format.
  • Change the font and font color of the date and time, temperature and location.
  • Show the country or province of a location.
  • Arrange the weather or clocks vertically or horizontally.
  • Show as many locations as you want with the option to scroll through each location.

Holiday features:

  • Configure the Web Part so that snow falls and gathers at the bottom of the screen when users access the page that contains this Web Part.
  • Set the density of the snow fall (i.e. 50%, 75%, etc.).
  • Indicate whether the snow will fall on a light background or dark background. Light background snow is darker colored for visibility.
  • Show a custom Holiday message that moves across the Web Part.

Complementary Products for World Clock & Weather

Complementary Products for World Clock & Weather

sharepointsolutions.pngYou will find many of our products complement each other quite nicely saving you the time and trouble to write custom code. With Bamboo at the heart of your SharePoint investment, you gain access to a huge catalog of enhancements, components, and accessories that add the critical functionality your business requires.

The same components can be easily used in future applications and they all come from a single, trusted vendor, ensuring an easy purchase process and support you can count on. That’s the Bamboo Way!


Check location and display a forecast summary

Check location and display a forecast summary

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After World Clock and Weather is installed and configured properly, users will see the local time and weather for the selected locations. Users have the option to view much more based on how the web part is configured as shown in the examples below.

Horizontal & Vertical Views

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Vertical View HW17_LocationsVert.jpg

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Viewing a Forecast Summary

Step Action Result
1. Hover over any part of the main section of the location image to display a forecast summary. HW17_WeatherSummary.jpg

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Viewing a Map and Temperature for Location

Step Action Result
1. Click the location name to view a Bing Maps view of the location (the default).

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NOTE: If a custom link is configured in the web part properties, clicking the location name opens that link instead.

2. Click the temperature to view the MSN weather forecast for the location.

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Viewing a Detailed Forecast

Step Action Result
1. Click the Detailed Forecast icon to view a two, three, or five-day forecast for the location (if configured).

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NOTE: If the Detailed forecast is configured in the web part properties to None, the Detailed Forecast icon is not displayed.

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Viewing an RSS Feed

Step Action Result
1. Click the RSS feed icon to view the configured RSS feed for the location.

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NOTE: If no RSS feed URL is configured in the web part properties, the RSS feed icon is not displayed. More information about RSS Feeds can be found here.

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Viewing Events

Step Action Result
1. Click the Upcoming Events link above the location icons (if configured) to show a list of upcoming events in the associated SharePoint Calendar list.

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NOTE: In this example, the Upcoming Events link text has been customized to display “Things To Do”.

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An error occurred while parsing EntityName

An error occurred while parsing EntityName

When you see errors on the World Clock and Weather web part, the first thing to look at is the error verbiage. You will see this particular error when something has changed to prevent your server from accessing the Internet:

**Error Message:

 **CreateListLocation:: : An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 26, position 61.

World Clock and Weather needs to access the following external web service at either:

  • https//weather.yahoo.com/
    or
  • http://weather.msn.com/

If your server is unable to access the Internet, you will not see the weather appear in your web part that is on your page.

NOTE: As of 11 December 2014, we began seeing issues with the weather feeds.

We released a patch to correct some of our code that syncs with the weather feeds. You can download the patch from our store here. This patch contains the following builds:

Both the MSN and Yahoo weather feeds are now working correctly in all three versions. If you continue having issues, be certain that you have the most recent versions on your site:

  • SP2007 (R2.4.54)
  • SP2010 (R2.4.58 – File Version 20.4.58)
  • SP2013 (R2.4.66.2013 – File Version 20.4.66.2013)

Add RSS feed links to a World Clock and Weather Web Part location

Add RSS feed links to a World Clock and Weather Web Part location

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These instructions apply to World Clock and Weather 2.3 and higher. This article contains the following topics:

Adding an RSS feed for a World Clock and Weather location

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To add an RSS feed to a location, configure the Web Part properties:
  1. To modify the web part properties, select Edit (or Modify) Web Part from the drop-down menu of the World Clock and Weather configuration tool pane.
  2. Enter the RSS feed URL in the RSS Feeds column for the location.
  3. Click OK to save changes and close the Web Part properties.
  4. To view the results of the RSS feed, click the RSS feed icon displayed on the location image.

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Finding RSS feed URLs

RSS feed URLs are specific to the content provider, and are not provided by Bamboo. Here are some tips for finding RSS feeds:

  • Many web sites offer RSS feeds. For example, Bamboo offers an RSS feed for Bamboo Nation content. CNN offers RSS feeds for several news sections. If a web site or content provider offers an RSS feed, it is usually indicated somewhere on the web site, with a link labeled “RSS”, “XML”, or the RSS icon. Icon-RSS

  • Click the link or icon for more information, which may include the RSS feed URL. For example: Clicking the RSS icon in the “Latest News” section of the Bamboo Store main page will take you directly to the RSS feed URL for Bamboo Nation (http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx). You can copy this URL into the RSS Feeds column in World Clock and Weather.

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  • If an RSS feed is available for the content on a specific web site, most current browsers indicate this by displaying the RSS icon somewhere in the browser navigation or menu bar. Click the RSS icon for more information. In most cases, clicking the RSS icon will take you to the RSS feed URL, which you can copy into the World Clock and Weather RSS Feeds column. The example below is from the CNN site.

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If you are having problems finding an RSS feed URL, please contact the content provider for assistance. Bamboo Support will not be able to help you with specific RSS feed problems.

Authenticated RSS Feeds

  • Authenticated RSS feeds are RSS feeds that require a username and password. In most cases, these types of feeds are not supported by World Clock and Weather (or even by most common RSS readers, including the ones included with many popular browsers). The only exception is for feeds that allow the username and password to be included in the URL. For example: https://USER:PASS@site.com/rss.xml. If the RSS feed is a SharePoint RSS feed that requires authentication, it will probably not work in World Clock and Weather.

If you are having problems connecting to an RSS feed that requires a username and password, please contact your content provider. Bamboo Support will not be able to help you with specific RSS feed authentication problems.

Connecting to RSS feeds from an HTTPS environment

  • If your SharePoint server uses HTTPS, you may encounter problems with non-HTTPS RSS feeds. For example: If your RSS feed returns text and images, the text may display fine but the images are broken. This is because the images are most likely links to HTTP (not HTTPS) locations. The server will not return non-HTTPS data.

    If you encounter problems with non-HTTPS RSS feeds in an HTTPS SharePoint environment, please contact your content provider for assistance. Bamboo Support will not be able to help you with specific RSS feed problems in an HTTPS environment.

Slow RSS feed response times

  • When you click on the RSS feed icon, the web part will attempt to retrieve the RSS data using the RSS feed URL you configured in the web part properties. Response time is determined by the response time for the specific RSS source, not by World Clock and Weather. If response time is slow, check the configured RSS feed. If you get the message “No news from this feed”, it may mean that your RSS feed URL is not configured correctly, or that the site requires additional authentication that is not supported by the World Clock and Weather (see above).

Please contact the content provider for assistance with RSS feed response times. Bamboo Support will not be able to help you with specific RSS feed problems.