[Script] UROverview v1.26 (20130412)

[Twister_UK]

Hi everyone,

Those of you active in the UK forum will already be aware of this script, and since it now has a slowly but steadily growing number of users based outside of the UK, it was suggested that I announce its existence in the global editing forum...

What does it do?

There are two main features to the script. The first is to add a pop-up box next to whichever user request or camera marker your mouse pointer is hovering over. This box contains a summary of the details for this UR/camera, allowing you to quickly see if it's one that you need to pay more attention to without having to click on the marker and wait for WME to reload the map at the marker position.

For UR markers, the box also contains three links allowing you to open up a new WME tab centred on the marker, to open up a new LiveMap tab, or to hide the marker for the remainder of this editing session (if you've decided that it's a UR you definitely don't want to be bothered with today)


The second feature is the ability to filter UR and camera markers by various parameters - type, age, keywords etc. e.g. if you don't want to see any General Error UR markers, they can all be hidden by ticking a single checkbox. If you only want to see URs that were created at least x days ago, but less than y days ago, you can do that too. If you're in the habit of setting URs to remind yourself about a map issue you want to fix when you get home, and you insert your username into the UR description to remind everyone else not to touch that UR, you can then find these URs easily by using the keyword filter...

Camera markers can be similarly filtered, although the range of filters is somewhat smaller here.


The script was developed in Firefox/Greasemonkey, but has also been tested (and used by others) in Chrome as an extension.

Note that, to the best of my knowledge, all of its current users are based on the world server - I would therefore appreciate any feedback from users on the NA server!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/145186

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Would you mind adding this to the Community plugins and extensions wiki page?

[AlanOfTheBerg]

In production WME, UROverview and Tim's highlighting interfaces kind of play ok together, but that left side area becomes quite messy. So far, functionality is fine.

[dmcconachie]

In production WME, UROverview and Tim's highlighting interfaces kind of play ok together, but that left side area becomes quite messy. So far, functionality is fine.

Not too bad with the show/hide button though

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Not too bad with the show/hide button though

It's not terrible, but with both showing, it goes beyond the screen height (for this monitor) and covers everything over there. Workable, but it's quite crowded. If Mike can get the OK for inclusion in the WazeBar, the way that tool is giving access to these cool scripts is much cleaner. I look forward to that.

[dmcconachie]

Not too bad with the show/hide button though

It's not terrible, but with both showing, it goes beyond the screen height (for this monitor) and covers everything over there. Workable, but it's quite crowded. If Mike can get the OK for inclusion in the WazeBar, the way that tool is giving access to these cool scripts is much cleaner. I look forward to that.

Yeah too tall for mine too, before he split the UR and camera features onto two tabs this one alone was too tall for my monitor! Is the WazeBar available for Chrome yet?

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Is the WazeBar available for Chrome yet?

Nope. Unsure if it will be. It's a different beast to do this in Chrome. It's a good reason to use Safari, though. I've mostly switched over, but you're right, it would be nice to be totally cross-platform.

[dmcconachie]

Not switching from Chrome just for that.

[Twister_UK]

A couple of tweaks bring us up to version 1.4...

When opening a new WME tab from the UR popup link, the new tab now has the same layers enabled/disabled as the original tab.

Filter settings are now saved into persistent local storage, so they can be reapplied at the start of the next editing session

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/145186

[Twister_UK]

Minor update to 1.4.1, to fix the livemap links in the UR popups on systems where the main livemap link at the top of the WME page doesn't include a reference to your current position within WME - on these systems the livemap links were being generated as relative links to WME rather than the absolute links to livemap as expected...

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/145186