I’d like to create a script which automatically pins an Office Mobile bookmarked location. This would require bookmarking a specific URL within the Office Mobile app, and then pinning the location as a tile.
Can anyone comment on whether or not this is possible, and if there’s dev documentation on this topic?
I don't think you can pin other applications, but perhaps you could create a secondary tile of your application using ShellTile and have it open a URL pointing at the document you want pinned.
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Is there a digital signage application that can faithfully render a dynamic web page the way a browser does? I have tried a few vendors - NoviSign, Pickcel.com, etc. These are cloud-based solutions that offer access to an authoring tool (ran in a browser) that can upload your content to the vendor's servers. You then configure a media player which has the vendor's app installed (and connected to your digital TV display) to pull the content for display on the TV.
The issue I am running into is that when I tried a dynamic web page content on the media player application, the web page remains static on the TV screen (there are no problems with Powerpoint slideshows). It seems that the JavaScript behind the web page is not getting executed in the player. I tried looking hard for some configuration settings that's causing this but to no avail. The ideal media player application would be one that has an actual web browser built into it that can render any typical dynamic web page for display. Are you guys aware of any such offerings by any vendor in the market?
I finally found a signage product that addresses exactly the issues I posted here. If you have a need to display a dynamic web page faithfully (even one that requires a login) via a signage app, you can try https://screencloud.com/. They have a Dashboards widget that handles this requirement and is very easy to use. I'm not going to go into details here as you can easily google them. I looked long and hard to find this and hopefully somebody in the same situation will find this information useful.
I am learning to write web apps. I am currently working on a project and recently purchased a QNAP Nas unit. The web UI for the admin settings is perfect for what I would like, but I don't know how to do the windows thing.
Basically you have a menu on the left of the web UI and when you select an admin option it opens a window that you can move around and minimize etc within the app. Does anyone know what technology this is? I don't mind RTFM but I jsut need to know what to read. I have googled and cannot find anything on whatever it is, probably because I don't know what to google for.
Something like this:
If anyone can point me in the right direction of what I can google or read up on that would be great.
You need JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross platform web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting.
QNAP is using extJS.
Web Desktop demo using extJS that you were looking for.
I've been reading through Google's Chromecast developer documentation and I can't seem to find any developer docs that discuss how to develop customizations for the Chromecast home screen, such as HTML overlays, etc.
There are Chromecast apps available that do show stuff on the Chromecast home screen, such as Dashboard Cast, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rir.dashboardcast&hl=en.
Does anyone know what approaches can be used with the Receiver API to allow this?
You cannot customize the home screen (backdrop); users can change what sort of feeds (images) can be used to be shown there. You, as a developer, do not have control over that and if it seems that some developers have customized that, in reality they have not; they are running an app there (like any other chromecast app).
Do you know if the Windows Phone SDK offers an API that allows to add a custom App entry inside the Application Settings page?
I would like to create a new entry "AppXYZ" that links the settings page of the application.
Is this view reserved just for "system" applications or could also be used to add a link to an external app's settings?
Although not well-known, there is a way to do that. In WMAppManifest.xml you can specify that your app belongs in HubType="268435456". That way, it will be integrated there. This is not an officially-supported approach and I am yet to see a third-party app approved in the Store that would handle this.
You can link to the settings page of your own application but not to the windows phone settings page you show us in the screenshot. Developers are only allowed to show some of these by using the corresponding URL schmemes.
Unfortuantely there is no possibility to integrate your app to the official settings hub as a third party developer. Adding HubType="268435456" in your WMAppManifest.xml file will prevent a successful sumbission.
Sorry for the bad news...
This question is part user experience, part engineering.
I am trying to find a nice, clean way to have a user communicate with my web page while they are on another web page. I have web services that will accept HTTP POST/GET, so AJAX and other asynchronous niceties are welcome - don't worry about the details of their communication, they can easily be modified to fit a solution.
The problem I'm running into lies within the user interaction. Ex., say the user is viewing a web page and they want to send my system the web site's URL. I would like it if they could do it while still looking at that page, and without too many "crazy clicks" - currently they have to go back over to my page and enter the information (as you can imagine this has tested horribly).
I have ruled out browser tool bars (easy to do in FF, but a lot of my users use IE) and local applications (they won't want to install Java or Adobe Air apps).
Have you ever solved a problem like this before, or do you have an idea of how I could solve it? Should I be looking at separate solutions for FF and IE (ex., a tool bar for FF and something else for IE)? Don't worry about Safari and Chrome, though a solution that supports them too would be nifty.
Thanks.
p.s. The user would have an account on my system already.
Have you thought about something like the Digg Bar?
Users can access it through a bookmarklet, or you can do a url prefix like http://yoursite.com/<other_site_url>. When users click links, the bar stays active.
What if you wrote a system tray application. Something similar to Pixel Ruler
This could sit in their tray, and it would know you're website. That would eliminate browser toolbars, and could conceivably work on several browsers. You could probably even set it up as an install if they visit your website.
Then you could expose a webservice on your site that this control would pass back info to (like the user's name, current website, etc)
I don't know about the details of your application, but the only solution I can imagine is that you have a page split into two frames, with your toolbar at the top. stumbleupon.com does this, but it makes sense because they're providing the web content.
Simply, your users would have to visit your site before they could do their own browsing. Is that reasonable for your project? That sounds like it could be a user experience disaster of its own. Also, if most of your users are using IE, I'm going to assume that they're not the most web savvy users out there.