The weather feed is from the Microsoft "Dallas" Project, you must sign up at www.sqlazureservices.com and subscribe to the Weather Central Global Forecast and Data Services - Weather Central, LLC (CTP2). You will need to enter your Account Key into the WebPart properties.
The location of the forecast is controlled by entering Latitude and Longitude values in the WebPart properties. I found this site very useful to search for a location and get the Latitude and Longitude values.
The images and stylesheet are loaded into the Site Collection Style Library. Any user who has access to this can change the weather icons or styles that the WebPart uses.
Note: Please make sure you have the necessary permissions/rights to use the icon images.
9 comments:
What happen to your codeplex project? The link on your page is broken.
I took it down becuase it contained images that I didn't have the rights to distribute. Also the Azure data market has been updated since the project was published and the feeds have changed. I will try to find some time to update my code to work with the latest data feed and republish the codeplex project but without the weather icons this time.
I like to know when I can download your Weather Webpart project on Codeplex? I really need it. Thanks
I live in the UK and there is a free Met Office data feed available on the Azure data market. I'm going to try updating the webpart to use this feed, but it will only be for the UK only. I'll republish it on CodePlex once I have it working.
The CodePlex project is back online now! I'm going to see if I can create an Office365 version of it too.
I'm struggling to get this working Ian. I have an Azure market account key and have subscribed to the met office data. When I enter a UK location and click on “find” I get the following msg “There was a problem accessing the Met Office data.” Any ideas where I am going wrong? Thanks
Hi Craig,
Do you have a proxy server for internet access ?
Ian.
Hi Ian, yes we do have a proxy server. Would this effect access to the met office data set? Thanks
Yes it might do, as the code isn't setup to make the request to the met office feed via a proxy. You could try to get your Sharepoint server an exemption rule on the proxy server.
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