Add a gadget to the Share dialog

Add an OpenSocial gadget to the Share dialog.

To add widgets to the Home page, log on as an administrator.

When add an OpenSocial gadget to the Share dialog, an additional tab is displayed in the Share dialog.

1. Open the Administration view.

2. Click Add another widget to display the Add new widget form.

3. For the Share dialog

   1. Select the widget is based on theOpen Social Gadget specification.

   2. Select Trusted as the security type because the gadget will need access to the ibm.connections.sharedialog container feature

   3. Select Show in Share dialog for UI integration point and select in the drop-down the name of the gadget the gadget should follow in the Share dialog tab order.

4. Enter a name for the widget in the Widget Title field.

5. Enter a short description of the widget in the Description field.

6. Enter the web address for the XML widget descriptor in the URL Address field. This address must be an absolute web address.

7. Enter the widget location in the Secure URL Address field. This address must be an absolute web address.

8. The Icon URL web address does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

9. The Icon Secure URL address does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

10. The IBM Connections specific tags option does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

11. The Display in the My Page view does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

12. The Display in the Updates view does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

13. The option Opened by default does not apply to adding gadgets to the Share dialog so we can ignore it.

14. To enable multiple instances of the widget to be used, select Multiple widgets. Each widget instance has its own properties, which can be useful. For example, if we are using a widget that displays bookmarks for a specific tag, you might want to enable multiple instances of the widget so that we can follow different tags in each widget.

    This setting is only applicable for iWidgets. Only one instance of an OpenSocial gadget may be loaded at a time.

15. Select opensocial as a required application in the Prerequisites area.

16. Click Save.

17. Open the Administration view and in the Disabled widgets area, select the gadget to enable, and click Enable.

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Add new ways to share content

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