The Weather widget allows users to add live weather information to an advanced channel. With the Weather widget, you can display single or multiple day forecasts, with options to find locations by city, state, country, or ZIP code.
Currently there are two Weather information providers:
- Weather Decision Technology (WDT) – only for the North American Region.
- World Weather Online (WWO) – for other regions besides North America.
This article provides the instructions to add and configure the Weather widget.
Adding a Weather Widget
To add a Weather widget to your advanced channel, follow the instructions in the Adding Widgets section in the Widget: Add Widget to Advanced Channel article and select the Weather widget in the Widget Library.
Configuring a Weather Widget
To configure a Weather widget’s properties, please follow the instructions below:
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In your advanced channel layout, click the Weather widget under the Widgets section.
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In the Widget Properties window, configure the common tabs as per this article: Widget: Configure Widget Properties.
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In the Widget Properties window, click the APPEARANCE tab, and edit the PROPERTIES section as per the table below:
Known Issues
The Weather widget icon is stretched when using the Appspace Windows PC client with DirectX. This issue occurs when the DirectX device is unable to interpret the negative stretch value in the widget properties.
A workaround is to change the stretch=-1 value to stretch=1 for all the properties with a stretch value in the Weather widget, as per the instructions below:
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Click the Properties tab, and search for all properties with the stretch=-1 value.
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Click the Edit button, and change all stretch=-1 values to stretch=1.
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Click the Finish button.