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I found 0 posts about Contribution Thermometers in the forum...so this is the first, I think.

I see the word "block" in the Contribution Page configuration, "should a thermometer block be displayed" - this is obviously Drupalese.

Is there an equivalent in Joomla?  A module, mambot, something?

Thanks,
Ken

Wow!  You DO live on this forum, don't you?

That's a nice widget, for sure.  I look forward to having it on my site.

Best,
Ken

1 - The text above the HTML to include says "Add this widget to any web page by copying and pasting the code below." Is this any page on your site? Or (what I'm hoping, and think), is that any page anywhere?

The intent is for it to work on any page, anywhere. However, there are some evolving issues with flash widgets and linking - particularly on the commercial social networking sites (facebook, myspace etc.) - and so we'll need help from folks out there who can try it out and help us tweak things if needed to make it as useful as possible.

For example, the current setting on the "Contribute" button is to open the CiviCRM contrib page in a new window (target="_blank"). This seems to be preferred setting for some sites - but it caused a problem for me when I first tried it on the sandbox - since my Firefox pop-up blocker didn't allow the new page to open (even though this was a user-initiated click). Of course, once I realized the problem and added sandbox to my "permit pop-ups" - it worked ok. But this is likely to be an issue for some folks :-(

2 - If as I think, these Flash widgets can be placed on any site, is there any type of built-in tracking so that you can see which site(s) that you've placed the widgets on are actually creating the donations? I guess that this could be done with an add-on parm of a tracking code(which I don't see) or maybe the referring URL. Not mandatory, but would sure be nice.

Currently, the widget can pass a WidgetID to the contribution page - but it's not in scope for 2.0 to do anything with that value. We'll get some experience and feedback and hopefully some contributions of code to extend this. I think recording the referring URL for contributions (rather than a widgetID) might be more useful - since the hope is that constituents will spread these widgets and they are not likely to modify the embed params themselves.