World Clock and Weather Web Part by Bamboo
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The World Clock & Weather Web Part for SharePoint allows users to display local time and weather for selected major cities around the globe.
Expert review
Free and very useful
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Bamboo’s World Clock and Weather web part is without a doubt one of the most popular free web parts for the SharePoint community. But being free is not the main reason why this web part is so good. It addresses a pretty basic need that SharePoint does not have out of the box. SharePoint is collaborative software intended to bridge the gap between remote locations within an organization or a network of people. This web part delivers a nice GUI display of time and weather and it helps keep all users connected to each others’ environments.
Product Reviews
| Pros | FREE!
Easy to manage
Lots of customization options
Newly updated 2.0 version comes with new features including:
Render clocks with Silverlight
New digital/analog clock styles
Custom holiday message
Optional weather effects
Various bug fixes and improvements |
| Cons | No support for data caching yet
No setting for custom timeout period
MSN weather only |
| Version Reviewed | 2.0 |
| Reviewed By | Mike Ferrara |
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User reviews
Average user rating from: 5 user(s)
Bamboo Web Part - I love it
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
We have developed a CRM Template that runs on SharePoint and include the Bamboo Web Part with every system. Our client's love it and it really adds some flair to the personalized home pages.
As our clients are both around the globe and sell around the globe the fact they can set up the locations that have meaning to them is really handy.
With an ever expanding global network of commerce this Free handy web part from Bamboo is appreciated by all.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Easy to install, easy to configure and useful! How much better can it get? Free! |
| Cons | None that I can see |
| Version Reviewed | 2 |
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Works as advertised
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
I have a client who gets a lot of use out of this product. If you absolutely have to have this functionality on a SharePoint site, it does it.
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All Round Info
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Another useful freebie from Bamboo. Too busy really for my liking, but if your job includes a lot of worldwide trade could be important.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Free and it is correct |
| Cons | Clutter |
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Effective, works the way you'd hope
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
For its intended use, this web part is great. I ran into no technical issues either deploying, configuring, or running it. The design is profesional and out of the box ready for use on, for example, a corporate intranet. It's now on CodePlex, part of the Community Kit for SharePoint.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Free and open source (available on CodePlex). Graphical elements look professional and there is some flexibility for layout. Easy to set up and quickly deploy to site. |
| Cons | Synchronous weather web service can cause page load issues if there is an outage. Default look is somewhat "MSN"-y, but that can be customized. |
| Version Reviewed | 1.0.0.0 |
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Simple to use.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Overall a good web part especially since it is free. We use it to monitor the weather at our 4 plant locations spread across the US. We have lots of travel between plants and it gives our users plenty of information to plan their trip.
Product Reviews
| Pros | Allows the display of multiple cities, rollover information for the next 3 days, access web via SharePoint enabled account which allows it to even work for our users that aren't given web access. |
| Cons | If the weather service fails the web part will cause a timeout and as a result will cause your page to take a long time to load. |
| Version Reviewed | 1.0.0.0 |
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