Weather and temperature widgets let you add location-specific weather information to your flight lists or other templates, in just a few clicks, pulled automatically from weather providers for each flight or location.
In this tutorial, we'll add weather information to the previously created FLIGHT LIST template by modifying the row element in the subdesigner.
Topics covered:
Templates tab:
Weather widget
Display bank wizard
Sample screen:
TUTORIAL STEPS:
A) Open your previously created FLIGHT LIST template on the Templates tab. See Create a FLIGHT LIST tutorial if required. | |
B) Edit the list element
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C) Click the button to edit the row template of the selected list. | |
D) Edit the row Click three dots of the row template item and select the Edit option. | |
E) Row template design mode - Weather widget selection
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F) Configure the Weather widget
| Location type drop-box offers the following options:
Static option provides weather information for the manually selected location from the drop down menu. Dynamic location includes a data source editor where the user can select the flight stop(location) for which the weather information will be provided. |
G) Data source editor
Destination code - displays the weather at the final (last) point of the trip. Origin code - displays the weather at the starting (first) point of the trip. Via code - displays the weather at the intermediate leg of the trip in case of leg flights. | |
H) Row template design mode - Temperature widget selection
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I) Configure your temperature widget
Note: You can also edit the font color of your widget's text if the default font color does not match the background color of the canvas. | |
J) Data source editor
Destination code - displays the weather temperature at the final (last) point of the trip. Origin code - displays the weather temperature at the starting (first) point of the trip. Via code - displays the weather temperature at the intermediate leg of the trip in case of leg flights. | |
K) Click the row template item to select it for your flight list. | |
L) Click the Save & publish button. Now you can assign and show the template on your display. | |