Configure a static portlet to show the weather

by John Fugazi — last modified Feb 04, 2009 02:34 AM
This will show how to create a weather portlet using Plone 3's built-in static portlet.

Purpose

At the time of this writing, I have been unable to find a Plone product that will show the weather of any location.  So I did a quick search and found this http://plone.org/support/forums/general#nabble-td340141.  This will show you how to create a weather portlet

Step by step

  1. Go to this web site,  http://www.accuweather.com/netwxmobile.asp. 
  2. Enter the information you wish to retrieve.accuweather
  3. Highlight and copy the information at the bottom.
  4. Open a Internet browser and log into your Plone site as "admin".
  5. In the url type: http://localhost:8080/Plone/@@manage-portlets
  6. On the left or right side, select from the dropdown "Static text portlet"
  7. Give the portlet a name, let say "Weather"
  8. In the text area, select the "HTML" button on Kupu.portlet_weather
  9. Delete everything in the text area and paste the code you copied from acccuweather.
  10. Now just click the "Save" button.

Now you should have a weather portlet.

weather