[Request] Scan for RTCs with comments

[vince1612]

Would it be possible to have a livemap script to scan either your own Real-Time-Closures or the ones for a country, list them and show if they have comments ? (a bit like UR-MP Tracking)

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@vince1612

New comments in closures issue
This has been a problem for a while: When you apply a Real-time closure in WME, notifications of a new comment on them do not work well in the app.

What will happen in case of a new comment

1. You DO get a little in-app pop-up notification if there is a new comment, but only if you are driving in the proximity of the closure.
2. If you setup a closure in another city, you may never get an in-app notification unless you drive there or scroll the map manually to the other city to trigger the pop-up.
3. In addition, you only get that one and only chance of seeing it, because it does not go to your app inbox, so once you touch the screen elsewhere, it’s gone for good.
   (That is not news, I spoke about it at the London meetup)

Version 4.0 made this issue more problematic than it was before
I used to “solve” this known issue by taking a screenshot of the notification before it was gone forever. (see pics)

• In v.3.9 (left pic) the notification contained the street name, which allowed me to find which closure was commented on easily.
• With v.4.0 (right pic) however, that information is gone from the notification, making it much harder to find out on which closure this comment was posted, as you have no trace in the app-inbox and no clue of which specific street this was about.
  

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I have already shared this problem in Centercode (SUG-1052) in the hopes that they will make it work better through the app. It got 12 votes and it was “reviewed” by the product team who will have “further discussion” about it.

But until they eventually decide something, it would help a lot if we could detect new comments on RTC’s with a script. Since I doubt that’s doable in WME, I thought the livemap might be a solution.

Really wish I could make this myself but I just don’t know how

Let me know if this would be possible

[vince1612]

It’s been more than 24 hours so…

[karlcr9911]

Yes, this is a great idea. I would love to see someone create it.

[vince1612]

I fear it might not be possible since no script author has ever replied.

[karlcr9911]

I posted it in the ‘Scripts’ Slack channel and one has replied…no timeframe for when he might get to it but he’s interested in this feature as well.

[Twister-UK]

I seem to recall having a look into this over the Christmas break as a possible addition to LMUR, but couldn’t find anything of use in the DOM - so the data (comment counts, reported by etc.) associated with each report marker are either hidden away in some obscure part of the DOM, or they exist only as internal variables which aren’t accessible to third-party scripts…

Interestingly, whilst digging around in the LM source again today to see if I had missed something obvious, I found a hidden “Irregularity Filter” panel. No idea how long that’s been present, but it does suggest that Waze have done some work on adding native filtering to livemap, so even if it were possible to easily access the required data via a third-party script, the presence of this would probably be sufficient to make me think twice before wasting my time on writing a script that could end up being made redundant sooner rather than later.