Ultraview Setup Instructions

[jhisr]

SteveP,

There is a function called "BuildIcon" in /include/ultra_view2_xml.inc (an include file for ultra_view2_xml.vbs ) which takes a device string as a parameter and then strips out unwanted characters including the degree symbol. I think that's the function you need to call. Don't quote me on it though. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm leading you down the wrong path.

Joe
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[sponnath]

I found a couple of weather devices that had a degree in them. I added some logic to pick up my names and do the translate. Got the vbs portion working now. On to the next step of making the asp work.

SteveP

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[sponnath]

It appears that it tries to display all status as gif. There are no gifs for things such as temps from what I can tell. Maybe this is because I wasn't loading ultraview, just ultrastatus. Maybe since it is taking a lot of errors trying to load gifs that don't exist, it crashes HS?

SteveP

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[sponnath]

I tried putting a blank between a couple of fiels in ultra_view2_status_temperature.xsl but that section failed to display. Does html like   need to be enclosed in something?

SteveP

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[Tom Kern]

I don't think there is a way to add HTML to the xsl file but I'm not positive. I've also tried in the past to add HTML in the ultra_view2_xml.inc file to change colors and so forth with no success.

-Tom

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[Ultrajones]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Steve P:
I tried putting a blank between a couple of fiels in ultra_view2_status_temperature.xsl but that section failed to display. Does html like &nbsp; need to be enclosed in something?
...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

&amp;nbsp; can cause XML to choke. Try using &amp;#160; instead.

Any HTML added to the xsl file must be well formed. This means any start tag must have a matching end tag and attributes must have a value. Examples:
&lt;br&gt; must be in the form: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt; must have matching end tag: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;td nowrap&gt; must be like: &lt;td nowrap=""&gt;

If you have FrontPage, you can use the "Apply XML formatting rules" to your HTML code.

After modifying the xsl file, you can check it by double-clicking it... it should load in Internet Explorer. If any sytnax errors are encoutered, it will tell you the line number and a brief description of the error.

Regards,
Ultrajones

[cadillackid]

I see where someone had trouble with a degree symbol.. so I edited the ultra_view2_XML include to try and catch it.. as any device from my garyga 1 wire plugin was causing the status page not to load.. I added a couple caes to search on the device type but cant get it to work.. how do I debug where the choke is occuring? can it be choking on a house code of [ as opposed to a letter? any help is appreciated im stumped.. in my homeseer devices the degree symbol they use looks like a little degree wuth a line under it .. maybe its a different ASCII code? or is it just a font difference..
-christopher

[cadillackid]

Looks like the garyga plugin uses an ASCII 167 for a degree symbol instead of the one used in the include file, once I set it to look for that, bingo my status page is back again
-christopher

[sdanks]

o.k. I have the initial page up and running. At least it is finding some of my devices. The first problem I had was that my include files needed to go in the "include" directory, and other scripts use an "includes" directory. Took me a while to see the spelling. . . So now it's working. BUT, how do I add a link to show up on the page? I see it is looking at settings.ini, so do I add it there? I see the regular ones, but I'm using ultalog and I want to add it to the links.