Recent update: 2008-3-21
I have noticed that when using IE 7, on two different systems (one a dell laptop with XP SP2, the other an iMac dual-booting Vista) PopFly works fine for about 15 mins and then will totally freeze my system and force a hard boot. The freeze happens in the mashup creator, but is inconsistent in ...
Have ocurreded the error 3002, image error, allways when my mashup start. jcfogaca
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PJQ at 2008-3-5
I understand why you might want to use code blocks to create AJAX-like interfaces to XML data streams, but I'm wondering why you don't offer an option to process a pure XML stream that might have been pre-processed by an XSLT file. I recently built some nice mashups of employee population ...
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IAP at 2008-3-3
Hi, I am a new user on Popfly, and am really enjoying it. I was fidelling around with the colour schemes, and cannot get back to the black UI scheme - it is not on the list. A tiny UI bug, but it would be great if it could be fixed. Many thanks, Iain
It would be extremely convenient to be able to point to sections of videos rather than a complete video to be able to only show Region Of Interest in some videos, rather than having viewers go through the whole video. Also, would it be possible to have the video block output the time position ...
I have seen some posts relating to Sharepoint, and while your targeted audience was not a Sharepoint audience initially, I would also like to see a better Sharepoint integration enabling Sharepoint users (Intranet or Extranet) to build simple mashups that leverage content in Sharepoint ...
I've only just recieved access to Popfly and I love it!!! I did have a suggestions, maybe this is already in the feature set and I just don't know about it yet but I think there are two features that jump out in my mind: 1. Grouping or catagorizing blocks in to folders or bigger blocks. I'm ...
I don't admit to having formed a PopFly mental model yet but it seems navigation of the general site is missing. A breadcrumbs model (or more strictly, a Homeware Path approach http://www.visiblearea.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Patterns/Homeward_path) might be worth consideration? Good luck with ...
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virgh at 2008-2-25
Very new here. Silverlight error message Error code 3001 Error type ImageError Message AG_E_INVALID_FILE_FORMAT Block: Seattle Public Library with Carousel The imageURL will not display the book jacket image. I've tried it with every photo display block I can find. Help? Thanks! ...
Trulia ( http://developer.trulia.com/) would be a great site to have a block for. They have a well defined API, etc., and it would give a lot of geodata. Unfortunately, it's a bit beyond me to build the block. Anyone want to give it a go? M. ...
Yesterday and today when I tried to use Popfly it literally crashed my computer (IBM T41 Thinkpad laptop). It actually caused the laptop to power off! No blue screen -- just a dark screen. This happened in both Firefox 2.0.0.3 and IE 6. The funny thing is that I used Popfly last week for about ...
I've noticed that sometimes when I rip someone else's project some of the blocks are off my screen. I assume that's because my screen size or resolution is smaller than theirs? (I'm on a Dell laptop at the maximum resolution for my screen -- 1280x800). M.
When I clicked on the header image in the web page builder and it popped up the editor I wanted to put a tab before the text. Instead of inserting a tab in the text box it went to the next tab stop on the web page (in my case it selected the bold button in the editor.) It would be nice to be ...
How about only showing the blue <em>output</em> connectors for block that actually have an output? And how about indicating that the block has self-render capabilities by changing the colour? Actually, that would be a good inclusion in the icon in the block library too...
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Viper® at 2008-2-20
Hello, First I must say I'm using IE 6.0 and there is a warning that experience may vary, so I'm not sure it this issue also occurs on IE 7.0 Here's the thing. When I drag a block on my project design first the red block appears and short after the two blue bullits. When I quickly drag and ...
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Ticino at 2008-2-19
The Stock Quote block has some rather odd behaviour with regards to the getQuote method. On trying to derive a percentage calculation based on the price of a stock and the change of the stock, the calculator will never return a known value. In fact, if I use the straight output of getQuote ...
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Ticino at 2008-2-18
I have a project that utilises a lot of calculators in sequence to arrive at a final calculation. As it stands now, each calculator is displayed as Calculator, Calculator (2), Calculator (3) and so forth. It would be nice if there was a way to rename the actual block in question to something ...
this has probably been thought about before and im not sure if this is the right place, but i was thinking about how it would be if you could actually access all the stuff from websites like flickr or twitter ie clicking on a twitter user picture mashed up with virtual earth and get a internet ...
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samiq at 2008-2-16
Guys I got an invite by Suzzane and when I go to the create account and type the popfly name and hit accept and create and get the postback to the same page with an Unknown Error below the name... anyone can help me out here on how to create my account?
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ChuckS at 2008-2-15
first time user, just trying it out and seeing what happens. I've got debugger turned on in IE 7 and am getting a series of errors when attempting to create a web page. Line 5 Error: "Type" is undefined Line 15 Error: "Type" is undefined Line 14 Error: "Sys" ...
Many blocks don't show content. They appear as if they don't have any content to show. I'm sure they are configured correctly and do have content to show. (example: Flickr block --> Caroussel) This issue occurs almost all the time. The mashups weren't saved yet. I'm using Windows Vista, ...
I have an RSS block connected to an Image Scraper block and then to PhotoFlip. Whenever I preview this or view it 'live' from my projects page it causes IE7 to stop responding completely (the window stops redrawing and it doesn't respond to any input). I left it 15 minutes one time just to ...
On the Find Users page ( http://www.popfly.ms/Users#), it would be great to be able to sort by Number of Shared Projects. The theory is that someone who has shared a lot of projects might have some of the best ones. Some way to see what projects are new would be great, too. Thanks, M. ...
There are several user submitted blocks that are "broken", meaning that they give an error like "Sorry, this block has an internal error...". Is there any vetting process for new block submissions? I expect that the list of available blocks is going to get really, really ...
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Snaap at 2008-2-14
I experience some issues with saving a new block.(Sorry, but we are not able to save your project. technical details: there was an error processing the request. Is this a know bug?
The News Reader block ought to display the "Description" content as rich text.
One thing that really bugs me about the block editor is that the process to test your block is kind of a pain. 1. Edit block. 2. Save block. wait... 3. Click on My Projects (to navigate away from the block editor). wait... 4. Now that you're on the My Project page, you can select ...
I try to setup timer for sequential photos changing in carusel - but each interval adds photos instad removing them - is there any solution for this problem?
hi, how can i make virtual earth display multiple pushpins it gets from several geonames blocks? i want to show local times from big cities in the usa and the normal way just enables me to display one city, if i add geonames with different cities it should work, but virtual earth only accepts ...
i have this idea about mashing up the picture of the day from the national geographic picture of the day website with geonames and virtual earth to enable people to see where exactly the picture was taken... only problem is i cant get the potd as an rss feed which makes it more complicated and ...
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G-Oker at 2008-2-10
I think that the Ability to "Rollback" on a project would be good, and to have different revisions ( so you can always referance back to a baseline, previous save ) might also be helpful. Also, the ability to leave yourself project specific notes might also be handy ( in case you have ...
With new blocks shared each day, it would be helpful if the newest ones were flagged in the block list. The ability to sort by share date might help also.
Not sure if anyone has brought this up but it would be nice to start a new block and then switch to another tab to use it in a mashup (and toggle back and forth very quickly). Thanks. Cale
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whale at 2008-2-8
Currently, there is a block called "RSS" in Popfly. The description of it is "RSS. Parse feeds into items that you can use in any mashup.". However, RSS is only one of the feed formats. So far it seems that only RSS 2 is supported. I hope that block will be renamed to ...
is it correct that the imageUrl in the VE block is not working. I try to use the imageurl from flickr and imagescrape but no result in the pushpin Hendrik
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jvzuck at 2008-2-7
It would be great to be able to upload and embed other file types in a web page including PDFs, docs, video, music, etc.
When I try to combine more than one topic from Digg, it makes it so that every item has the same number of diggs, comments, etc.
When using virtual earth, a can only see first 1/4 of the maps. 3/4 of my screen is black, empty. here is my configuration: -Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 -Windows XP SP2 Kind regards, Abdelkrim
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jvzuck at 2008-2-6
part of this could just be my misunderstanding of their use but it seems as though the system is architected to create single-use mashups. I wonder if it would be possible to have mashups with parameters so you could set those parameters as part of your web design in creator. So let's say I ...
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G-Oker at 2008-2-6
It would be good yto have an ebay block ( similar to the flickr block ) to allow ebay listings ( either listings or watching ). Thanks
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jvzuck at 2008-2-5
Thinking in terms of frequent website functionality, one is feedback, contacts, forms, alerts, etc. It would be great to have a block which can troll the parameters of another block (say a user input block for example) and email the contents to a prescribed email address.
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jvzuck at 2008-2-5
I guess this issue has to do with your intentions vis a vis images. You have a small image libary built into Creator for purposes of page design. Is it your intention to host images or do you assume that everyone will host their images elsewhere (Flickr, Photobucket, etc.)? If you are thinking ...
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jvzuck at 2008-2-4
I think there are going to be a lot of instances where someone will want to seperate labels from values in a combo box so you could have a version of the combo box where the values looked like: Cat;1;Dog;2;Horse;3 where the words showed up to the user but the numbers were returned as the ...
When I click to download the block building guide from http://www.popfly.ms/shell.aspx?projectType=block the zip file seems corrupt. I've tried from different computers. It seems to work by just putting http://www.popfly.ms/Help/PopflyBlockSDK.zip in the browser's address bar. ...
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jvzuck at 2008-2-4
The lack of embedded HTML support in the creator leads a web designer to create numerous single purpose mashups for insertion in a web page. Perhaps from a control perspective you could have an "HTML Block" object in which someone could insert HTML code that they get out of Flickr, ...
Hi, with the wide format monitors becoming more common I see some issues here and other places. 1) do not assume that the users screen is 1024x760 or 1600x1200 -- test for and allow for screens like 1680x1050 and other wide screen / HD formats. 2) use CSS and DIV's to put the ...
I added a Facebook block with the 'getFriends' operation linked to a User Input block on the Facebook->name field, then I linked that to another Facebook block with 'getPhotoAlbums' based on the userId from the output of the User Input block. Finally I linked this to the Slideshow block ...
when i try to use WLC in VE the LC is not appearing in the mashup. When I use this block in for example 8Ball the WLC 'box' appears. Am i missing something? thanks, Hendrik example on my projectpage http://www.popfly.ms/users/Nescio/not%20working%20VU%20LC_project ...
It would be handy if we could use the Regular Expression block to find and replace text.
Ok, first off... Popfly is awesome and I'm not a programmer!So heres a bunch of stuff off the top of my head!...In the webpage, I can't seem to find a way to remove mashup... I could delete the whole page but, I wouldn't want to do that if i did allot of work on it.I'm having problems with ...