Recent update: 2008-3-21
I'm trying to create a mashup that will display thumbnail images and have each image link to a different url. I used the image scraper to extract a list of all the images i want to use (i had to create such a page on my web site. meaning a page with all the thumbnails). Then connect it to the ...
Hola quisiera saber si hay soporte en espa?ol para asi alguien ayudarme.....
I have an idea for a few Blocks but I am stumbling on getting the block SDK up and running. I try to open the .sln file in visual studio as well as the tester.csproj BUT I get that the files cannot be open since they are not supported by this installation. Im using Visual studio Express ...
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raouff at 2008-3-3
when cretaing a web page I want to insert images but the creator says me that I don't have uploaded images to my gallery ; so how can I upload images to my gallery ?
Hi, These images on Popfly Team Site that shows the photo of the Popfly team members are really cool. Does anybody know how to create those images using our own photo? Thanks. ...
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Bahbus at 2008-2-28
I can't seem to figure out how to work with a boolean output. I have two block going into a RegExp block and checking to see if the info matches. But I can't figure out how to set something up if its true, or something else if its false. Any help?
Great work Popfliers. I like your app. I just blogged about how I built a Popfly Mashup that consumes a JSON data feed. This included a custom built Data Block, the Flickr Block, and the Slideshow Block. Peter Laird Blog Entry - Building a Data Driven Mashup with Microsoft Popfly Comments ...
Thought this idea would be a good tester for Popfly.Take my acronym " Snapafun " and have it dance to rock'n'roll music.A. Is it possible ?B. Where do I go to get started ?Basically, a webpage that is alive and in party mode when you first arrive there.Have access to the mid tune, ...
Has anyone come across this issue...? 1) I have created a Facebook - Virtual Earth mashup to show my friend's locations. 2) I had no problem generating developer keys and the mashup seems to work fine as friends do appear on the Virtual Earth map. 3) The problem is that my friend appear in ...
I can return the local ip of the client but can't figure a way to get the facing ip. Any suggestions?
I would like to be able to create mashups that finds my list of Facebook friends, and a) puts their profile photo into one of the photo apps (like tiles, or sphere) and 2) places their photos onto a map based on their city. If anyone has a list of steps, or video tutorial that would be great!
Is anyone implementing any form of data storage in their blocks? If so how are you going about it. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question <img src=" http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/images/emoticons/smile_regular.gif"> Have a nice day, Tim
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Orm at 2008-2-22
Hi All, I work for a Council in the UK and we are looking to use Popfly with our new MOSS 2007 platform. I have got my head round the basics and made a couple of blocks that grab data from an XML containing some LOB info. My problem is that in our orginisaion all our data is geocoded to the ...
How can the User Input be used with Virtual Earth. Whenever I use it, it ends up on the top and you can't click in the boxes. Is there something that can make it ask for the input first before displaying the map or something to separate them?
Hi EveryoneHopefully osme bright spark can help me?!?!?!I am trying to create a mashup using Facebook and the Photosphere - dead easy one would think!I have followed the video tutorial, but there seems to be a discrepancy between the Facebook pages in the tutorial about the developer keys, and ...
Hi, I keep getting this error message when I'm testing Popfly. I have created a simple block but when I try to build a mash with it I get the above mentioned error message. I cannot find the error in the code. Is there any good way to verify block code and get decent error messages referring ...
</lurk> Hey all, first off, as this is my first post, congrats to the PopFly team for releasing what looks like an awesome platform! I've already created a couple of mashups and adapted one of the default blocks. However, I can't get the combine block to work - there doesn't seem to ...
Hi, I'm trying to filter out the first word of a <description> item in a news feed. For this I created the regular expression ^(\w)+ , which matches the first word. I used the RegExp block, with the getMatches operation. However, when I connect this block with a News Reader block ...
Seems like every block's blockIconUrl seems to point to "/content/components/icons/<icon file name>". But I cant seem to locate this location to post my icon. If I provide absolute URL for this node, it doesnt show up in block explorer. Could anybody let me know what am I ...
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hapt at 2008-2-15
Just a newbie question. I've searched through the forum with no luck, so I assume I'm missing the most obvious thing. I made a simple gadget to make a random gauge, which works fine. http://www.popfly.ms/users/happyt/random-gauge When I add this to a web page, I have a box added to show ...
Hi, I'm a developer of a community website, on which users have their own photobook on their profile page. I'd like to make this photobook a popfly-photobook. So I created a block that retrieves the photos from a specific community member, and in a mashup I pass these photos onto a ...
How come you let us publish to Live Spaces but not to Live.com? Has anyone built a gadget that will display, on my Live Space, all of my Popfly projects? Will you, one day, let us publish gadgets directly to gallery.live.com? questions, questions, questions... cheers Jamie ...
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MiCCAS at 2008-2-15
Hey There. Thought I'd let you know, with the shrinking images (avatars) they go black in the background, or has done for me. I uploaded an image containing the windows vista box, with a white background. Now, once it was shrunk it's black. Regards, Michael.
I was just invited (by an admin) and so joined PopFly today. Just wondering how long it takes before you receive invites to give away? Cheers
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Cyonix at 2008-2-14
Hi, Where do i find information on how to form my block description? Will the following work? <object name="EveCharacter"> <field name="currentSkill" type="custom" object="EveCurrentSkill" isArray="false" /> </object> ...
Hi, I'm having trouble getting Silverlight working on my machine (which I'm persuing on the Silverlight forums) so I can't create any mashups at the moment (boo hoo). However, I've noticed that I can still use the 'Create a Web Page' and 'Join the community' sections of Popfly which ...
Ok, I give up. I received an invitation and clicked on the invitation link, which takes me to the "Create Your Profile" page. No matter what Popfly name I try to use, I get a Popfly name in use error. I've tried random alphanumeric strings, username variations, etc. Any ideas? ...
Hi all, I don't have an invite yet so I'm having to discover stuff by asking Qs....for the time being... I saw Suzanne's 3-minute demo video and was interested in the photosphere thing. Does it only display photos? I was thinking that'd be a cool mechanism for displaying tags from my ...
Hello all, Today (May 28th) I have requested an invite via popfly.com I've also been to Aaron's blog and tried to bag one of his five invites on offer but it looks like they've all gone. Have I got any chance at all of getting an invite? I'm putting together a Live.com collection related ...
I am attempting to use Visual Web Developer Codename Orcas Express Edition to troubleshoot some JavaScript before adding to the my block. This would afford the use of an integrated debugger. I think I may be missing some documentation as I am not sure where, for instance, environment.getXml is ...
I'd like to rate a few of the blocks I've seen, but I'm not sure where one can do this at. It would be great, if we could rate from say the block's modify tab? Since that is where "fun" of either flavor will come from. Thanks, http://www.popfly.ms/users/CJCraft/ ...
Now i can't say its lack of trying i have tried almost every configuration to log in with my valid invitation but I never get past the first error message after the tittle of this thing. I have tried the original email that it was sent to I have created other id's as well I am exhausted all ...
hi, I'm trying to use the getPpularStoriesByTopic method in the Digg block and am getting the error "root has no properties" consistently. I don't have any other block in my mashup yet. It seems like a bug to me. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I am looking for someone experienced with JavaScript to modify my mashup, RSS Earth, which is shared in my Popfly page. I managed to get most of it done, but now I need help. I want it to list multiple news items from the same city. If anyone knows how to make it list all the items from each ...
Hi, I try to open someones mashups ( http://www.popfly.ms/users/aaron/gamerscore.small) I got this error: "Sorry, your user profile is currently unavailable. Please try again later." And when I tried to open someones link: ( http://www.popfly.ms/users/aaron). It redirects me to this ...
Hi, We have a lot of blocks for other outside community sites. I think a Popfly block would be an excellent addition to the collection. I think that opens up a whole new world of possibilities and opportunites for everyone. Thanks again, Chris Craft http://www.popfly.ms/users/CJCraft ...
Hi, Great statistics are an important part of the Web 2.0 experience. I'm sure all content creators would love to know how many times their creations were viewed and how many times their creations were used. Thank you so much, Chris Craft http://www.popfly.ms/users/CJCraft ...
I'd like to have an about property to my Clock Block object. Instead of us hacking together something. I'd like to recommendation a standard that could be included into the XML section as well. That way we can have author name, description, URL, details, documentation etc. Thanks, Chris ...
http://www.popfly.ms/users/CJCraft/Clockr I would like to make Clockr animated. But when I do it appends any to pictures to end of any existing photos. What is the recommended method of handling this? Do I have to force a page reload in javascript? Thanks, Chris Craft ...
Hello, I started a new website for Popfly users to share they Popfly Mashups. You can add your Popfly Mashup Link into the website and all we can see what all can be made with Popfly. Of course you can browse all added Popfly Mashups from other users. I didn't received any invitation yet. ...
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f1d at 2008-2-5
Hi, I'm trying to "Create my profile" (I've been invited) but it keeps telling me "Unknown Error". Any ideas guys? Cheers!
I have applied for popfly invitation but nit yet recieved .hellp Me please
Hello, I guees I misunderstand some basic concepts. -How to modify an existing block? Imagine I have a site with different images and want display this images in one of this image display block elements. But this source page contains some pictures for site navigation too. Normaly I would use ...
Just a question if the userinput block really works because i was trying something out and did the following I aatached the userinput block to the soapbox block and then to the videoplayer block so people can search and the result will show but it doesn't work whenever i click on the go ...
I have applied for popfly invitation but nit yet recieved .please hellp.
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Ryanph at 2008-2-4
Hi all, I am trying to save a Mashup and I am getting the following error and not sure how to resolve this problem: Sorry, but your project maynot have been saved successfully due to an internal server error (invalid token) Can anyone explain what this means and how I can resolve this issue, ...
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Ryanph at 2008-2-3
Hi all, in working through PhotoSphere and other Picture objects, each of the URL entries points to an individual image file. How can I reference a folder, for example a SharePoint folder, where a bunch of image files are stored? I don't see the use of only pointing to one file, I need a way ...
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tronn at 2008-2-3
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has anyone got the video player to work? i tried it with twitter user videos, got a format error which is understandable, but not even the top 20 new gametrailer videos are working. they show up in the list, but when i press play, nothing happens... any ideas?
Just a small question, I tried playing around with RSS feed block to modify it to show the RSS feed of our community site but for some reason it does not work, it will not take the .xml rss feed. Works great in plain normal IE7. Any suggestions or is this not possible yet ?