Popfly General Discussion,8
Recent update: 2008-3-21

Data reader block

1443 byte By cowchimp at 2008-3-7
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 ...

Hay Soporte en Espa?ol?

77 byte By DAVICO at 2008-3-6
Hola quisiera saber si hay soporte en espa?ol para asi alguien ayudarme.....

Block Builder issues

541 byte By elmos_lemur at 2008-3-5
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 ...

I need help !!!!

181 byte By 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 ?

Cool photo images on PopFly Team Site live space

381 byte By CheeLeong at 2008-3-1
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. ...

Boolean output

250 byte By 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?

Tutorial: Building a Data Driven Mashup with Microsoft Popfly and JSON

787 byte By PeterLaird at 2008-2-27
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 ...

Rock'n'Roll dancing letters in time to midi

811 byte By Snapafun at 2008-2-26
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, ...

Facebook Mashup Friends in the Wrong Locations

704 byte By TravelKev at 2008-2-25
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 ...

Facing IP address block?

110 byte By Stephen2007 at 2008-2-24
I can return the local ip of the client but can't figure a way to get the facing ip. Any suggestions?

Facebook Mashups

294 byte By AlanLepo at 2008-2-23
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!

Storing Information

269 byte By cloak13 at 2008-2-22
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

Using Virtual Earth with UK Eastings and Northings

702 byte By 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 ...

User Input in Virtual Earth

249 byte By anonymouse91 at 2008-2-21
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?

Facebook Issue

718 byte By TJMartin at 2008-2-20
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 ...

Cannot assign to a function result

331 byte By herbj?rn at 2008-2-19
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 ...

Combine block

753 byte By WillThompson at 2008-2-18
</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 ...

RegExp block output

563 byte By jillefloridor at 2008-2-17
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 ...

blockIconUrl - where do I post my icon?

373 byte By KapilTundwal at 2008-2-16
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 ...

Removing the about box

1940 byte By 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 ...

Usage of external variables

866 byte By Aart-Jan at 2008-2-15
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 ...

Gadget questions

320 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-15
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 ...

Shrinking Images

276 byte By 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.

How long before you get invites?

149 byte By NilEinne at 2008-2-15
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

Block Description Information

2191 byte By 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> ...

Is it only the mashup creator that uses Silverlight?

466 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-14
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 ...

Log In Problem

305 byte By jtregear at 2008-2-13
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? ...

Tell me about Photosphere

589 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-13
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 ...

Chances of getting an invite?

1247 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-12
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 ...

Newbie question: environment.getXml

425 byte By windozer at 2008-2-11
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 ...

Is there a way to rate blocks?

696 byte By CJCraft.com at 2008-2-10
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/ ...

I have been trying for three days now

367 byte By ButchBrooklyn at 2008-2-10
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 ...

Issue with Digg block

259 byte By cooldyood at 2008-2-8
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?

Looking for some help with a mashup

334 byte By Perseco at 2008-2-8
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 ...

User Profile Unavailable

1660 byte By Popflyers at 2008-2-7
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 ...

Popfly Block

539 byte By CJCraft.com at 2008-2-7
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 ...

Track view statistics, and used statistics

521 byte By CJCraft.com at 2008-2-7
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 ...

Clock Block - how to handle about information

525 byte By CJCraft.com at 2008-2-7
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 - How should I refresh page?

684 byte By CJCraft.com at 2008-2-6
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 ...

Share your popfly mashups

576 byte By Popflyers at 2008-2-6
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. ...

Can't sign up?

176 byte By 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

75 byte By monabdo at 2008-2-5
I have applied for popfly invitation but nit yet recieved .hellp Me please

Some noob questions

644 byte By john-wayne-interessierts at 2008-2-4
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 ...

Userinput ?

354 byte By CyberOps at 2008-2-4
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 ...

invitation please

78 byte By jagdeesh_karicherla_6f4461 at 2008-2-4
I have applied for popfly invitation but nit yet recieved .please hellp.

Saving Mashup Problems

495 byte By 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, ...

Multiple Image Displays for PhotoSphere and other Picture Objects?

540 byte By 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 ...

Any Cardspace plans so we can integrate SharePoint in a serious way?

2 byte By tronn at 2008-2-3
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video player

261 byte By Googleman81 at 2008-2-2
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?

.xml rss feed

290 byte By CyberOps at 2008-2-2
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 ?