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1. Load in the Workshop->Current U.S. Weather bundle from the toolbar menu.
2. Zoom in over an area experiencing some weather.
3. Select the Data->Special->Weather Text Products (from server) menu to open the Weather Text Product control.
4. Expand the Public Products category and select the Area Fcst Discussion product. This will plot some stations in the main view window.
5. Click on one of the stations in the view window to see the latest discussion.
6. Select the Zone Forecasts product for the same station.
7. With the Zone Forecast displayed, click on the HTML tag. This presents an web-ified version of the forecast.
8. Select the Show Glossary checkbox. Click on one of the glossary links.
9. Expand the Observed Data category and select the Surface Hourlies product.
10. Select the Display tab in the control window and increase the density of the stations shown. Select the Layout Model to change the way the stations are shown.
11. Go back to the Products tab in the display and select the Text tab.
12. Select several stations (use Ctrl-Click) in the main view window
13. Change the Time Covered to 6 hours.
14. Spend some time trying other products/times.

Unidata IDV Workshop for version 3.0u1 > Accessing and Displaying Data > Miscellaneous Displays