MarcW - Another thing I would recommend is to change the code of your gadget to build in several days worth of verses into the code, so that when there are cache issues that have periodically come up during the past few years that I've been doing this; at least your users won't be stuck on the same verse.
Phillip On Aug 26, 1:11 pm, phillip132 <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob & MarcW, > > I am also seeing both of these issues. The work around that I use for > the "My gadgets" tool not working is by taking thecacheoff from the > embed gadget url by appending a "&nocache=9" to the URL. > Example:http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http%3A//www.believe... > > I still haven't figured how to update thecacheto all the other > iGoogle users. When I make changes to my gadgets, I've noticed that > only about 70% of the iGoogle users are seeing the updates & the > remaining users gradually get theircacheupdated (over a period of > months). > > At one point there was acachebusting code snippet you could put in > your gadget to push out the updates to all the users, but I don't > recall what that was & never needed to use it before. I'll let you > know if I figure that out. > > Phillip > > On Aug 17, 2:34 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From the gadget source and name I take it you change the gadget spec daily? > > > Is the issue you're having similar > > tohttp://code.google.com/p/igoogle-developers/issues/detail?id=5orare you > > saying that under normal conditions your gadget changes don't propagate to > > the user's iGoogle pages? Changes to the gadget spec on your servers should > > show up for users within a couple hours normally. > > > Rob Russell > > Google Developer Relations > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:53 AM, MarcW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Our very popular Gadgets; > > > Bible Verse of the Day, athttp://www.believer.com/outreach/versetoday.xml > > > and Bible Verse of the Day - NIV, at > > >http://www.believer.com/outreach/versetodayNIV.xml > > > are NOT refreshing, this has been going on for weeks and we are losing > > > users. The other day the problem seemed to be fixed but has immediatly > > > returned. Please help us to fix this ongoing problem and restore our > > > users. I have tried contacting the staff using multiple forums and > > > author replies but have been unable to get any feedback other then > > > other developers experiencing the same problems. I have checked the > > > code using Gadget Checker and My Gadget (which will also not release > > > thecacheexcept to click on the link to verify the Gadget has been > > > changing twice daily as it should). With as high as 400 thousands > > > users we are getting quite a bit of email complaining about this > > > problem. If I could get at least an email letting me know you are > > > working on the problem or helping us to correct anything on our side > > > it would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks foe all you do, > > > Believer.com > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
