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What is "Current:"?
Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013 9:39 pm
by aznetcowboy
I have been wondering what the input line in the lower right-hard corner if the Cumulus screen is for? It appears to be some sort of input line, but for what? Sorry for the dumb question, but I can't find the answer. Apparently I am doing the wrong search for the answer or it doesn't exist?
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013 10:13 pm
by mcrossley
I'm not sure what you mean, can you screen shot the bit in question?
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013 10:39 pm
by beteljuice
I think he may mean current conditions box ?
See <#currcond> under "Miscellaneous" here:
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Webtags
and here:
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Currentconditions.txt
Basically it's a user text box that can be inserted in one of your webpages if required.
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013 10:41 pm
by steve
It's the 'current conditions' box. It sets the value of the <#currcond> web tag so you can manually enter data to be displayed on your web site. It's off by default; you've presumably turned it on unintentionally. You can turn it off again on the display settings screen.
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013 12:22 am
by aznetcowboy
See the attached graphic below to better explain what I am referring to. The spot I am referring to I have the comment "WHAT IS THIS FOR?" in it.
Current.jpg
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013 12:27 am
by beteljuice
See the two posts (and links) above ..
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013 12:29 am
by PaulMy
I use it to enter the current day's snowfall and with the webtag <#currcond> to shows on my index.htm page
Paul
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013 1:50 am
by JennyLeez
I use it and have <#currcond> under a smaller version of my weather cam on my front page. I just manually alter it through the day.
The down side is I am invariably forgetting to change it and remember at midnight when it is still showing sunny
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013 5:24 am
by aznetcowboy
Thanks everyone. I now understand this and how it works. Except for one little thing and that is how can you add a text field prior to the <#currcond> field? Something like "Current Conditions: " and not have this displaying when there is nothing in the <#currcond> field?
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 9:39 am
by tomcatuk
Took me a while to work it out duh!
I just added the web tag <#currcond> under the forecast in the index page, and if I don't write anything in the box, then there is nothing shown.... like somebody else said I'll forget to update it and we'll be in the middle of summer and I'll have something like
".... its still snowing hard out there!" 
See...
http://www.furball.co.uk/weatherlive/index.php
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 11:43 am
by beteljuice
Why are all your nav menus colspan=3, they should be colspan=4.
Also you may like to put a space between each of the 'double colons'
:: (to become
: :).
That will help your overlong nav menu wrap and make your pages look much better
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 12:22 pm
by tomcatuk
beteljuice wrote:Why are all your nav menus colspan=3, they should be colspan=4.
Also you may like to put a space between each of the 'double colons'
:: (to become
: :).
That will help your overlong nav menu wrap and make your pages look much better
@beteljuice
If that was addressed to me, tell me what to do as I know zilch about editing and was simply taken from the original pages...
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 12:43 pm
by beteljuice
@ tomcatuk - sorry for not being clearer.
Your navigation links code needs changing from:
Code: Select all
<tr>
<td colspan="3" class="td_navigation_bar">:<a href="index.php">now</a>::<a href="gauges.php">gauges</a>::<a href="today.php">today</a>::<a href="yesterday.php">yesterday</a>::<a href="thismonth.php">this month</a>::<a href="thisyear.php">this year</a>::<a href="record.php">records</a>::<a href="monthlyrecord.php">monthly records</a>::<a href="trends.php">trends</a>::<a href="noaa-reports.php">noaa reports</a>:<a href="https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/">forum</a>:</td>
</tr>
To:
Code: Select all
<tr>
<td colspan="4" class="td_navigation_bar">:<a href="index.php">now</a>: :<a href="gauges.php">gauges</a>: :<a href="today.php">today</a>: :<a href="yesterday.php">yesterday</a>: :<a href="thismonth.php">this month</a>: :<a href="thisyear.php">this year</a>: :<a href="record.php">records</a>::<a href="monthlyrecord.php">monthly records</a>: :<a href="trends.php">trends</a>: :<a href="noaa-reports.php">noaa reports</a>: :<a href="https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/">forum</a>:</td>
</tr>
As your pages are .php, I don't know which / where the templates are that you need to edit.
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 3:29 pm
by tomcatuk
That's ok, I know where they are, I'll have a go in a minute and change them....
Edit:-
Done it.... looks better thank you.
Re: What is "Current:"?
Posted: Fri 01 Mar 2013 2:46 pm
by logjam
JennyLeez wrote:I use it and have <#currcond> under a smaller version of my weather cam on my front page. I just manually alter it through the day.
The down side is I am invariably forgetting to change it and remember at midnight when it is still showing sunny
The same here. However, I have changed the heading to "Last Observation Made", which I think is a better description since I cannot always update it in real time. Hopefully viewers of the web page will accept that it was 'Sunny', even if it is now night time etc.