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How to Present a Weather Widget on Your Page

While there are no weather widget elements in the ShortPoint Page Builder (yet), you can easily embed a weather report (or forecast) into your page by using the SharePoint Script Editor web part. You can insert a script editor into your page among ShortPoint elements and other web parts. 


Before we start:

This tutorial works with Classic SharePoint pages.



Step 1: Insert a Script Editor Web Part.


In the Edit mode, choose the Insert tab. Click Web Part. A menu will appear. Please choose Media and Content under "Categories". Then choose Script Editor under "Parts":


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Step 2: Search for a Weather Widget Embed Code.


Now, you can search for a weather widget on the internet. We like this one. You need to set up your widget and retrieve an embed code generated for you:



Step 3: Insert Weather Widget Embed Code.


In the inserted Content Editor, please click EDIT SNIPPET.


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Next, please paste the code you retrieved in Step 2 into the script editor, press OK to save the changes and switch to render mode. 


This is how our result looks like on a page:
















Here is another example: the  Script Editor web part with weather is inserted into ShortPoint row with 1/2 : 1/2 layout:



That's it!


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