Tuesday, April 22, 2008
iGoogle Gadget for RunningAHEAD Users
I wrote a little iGoogle gadget today that displays a user's total distances from RunningAHEAD.com. It uses the scripts feature that you can access from your RA Tools menu. The gadget is not fancy, but it allows you to set its title and the log ID for the user you want to track. You can add multiple instances of it to your iGoogle page if you want to track multiple users.
Click the following link to see a screenshot and optionally add it to your iGoogle page: RunningAHEAD Distance Totals
By default, it will show my log totals, so you'll probably want to change it to show your own or someone else's. Click "Edit Settings" off the drop down menu in the gadget's upper right corner to change the title and log ID. The log ID is not the person's RunningAHEAD user name. It's the long hexadecimal string from the user's summary page URL. For example, the URL to my log summary page is http://www.runningahead.com/logs/23fbfe3407d54034bb604d607cb56919. So the log ID for me is 23fbfe3407d54034bb604d607cb56919.
Note: A user must have their log shared publically (i.e., for everyone to access it) in order for the scripts to work. So if your log is private, then you won't be able to use it with this gadget.
Click the following link to see a screenshot and optionally add it to your iGoogle page: RunningAHEAD Distance Totals
By default, it will show my log totals, so you'll probably want to change it to show your own or someone else's. Click "Edit Settings" off the drop down menu in the gadget's upper right corner to change the title and log ID. The log ID is not the person's RunningAHEAD user name. It's the long hexadecimal string from the user's summary page URL. For example, the URL to my log summary page is http://www.runningahead.com/logs/23fbfe3407d54034bb604d607cb56919. So the log ID for me is 23fbfe3407d54034bb604d607cb56919.
Note: A user must have their log shared publically (i.e., for everyone to access it) in order for the scripts to work. So if your log is private, then you won't be able to use it with this gadget.
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# posted by Bill Menees @ 6:43 PM 
