Add widgets to the Home page
Add widgets to the activity stream and My Page views so that we can see updates from IBM Connections and other sources, and bring extra functionality to the Home page.
To add an IBM Connections widget to the Home page, the organization must have a subscription to the corresponding Connections application. We can also add third-party widgets if the administrator has enabled use of them. The content palette lists all the widgets the administrator has made available for the deployment.
The first time you use the Home page, a number of default widgets display in the activity stream and My Page views. We can extend the information displayed in each view by adding extra widgets from the content palette. For example, if we are an active blogger and are interested in seeing what other bloggers in the organization are talking about, you might want to add the Blogs widget. Or, to keep track of what the people in the network are doing, you might want to add the My Network widget.
We can add widgets to any of the columns in the My Page view, but we can only add widgets to the side column in the activity stream views. Your widget preferences are automatically saved by the system so that when we next open the Home page, the widget display is the same as when we last used the page.
Your preferences are not saved if you remove all the widgets from a page. When you remove all the widgets, the page is automatically reset to display the default set of widgets the next time that you return.
To add a widget.
- Click Customize.
If we are in the My Page view, we might need to click the Add Content tab if it is not already displayed.
- Select a widget type from the menu sidebar, and then click a widget to add it.
- Close the content palette.
- Home page widgets
The widgets in the Home page widget catalog can help you stay up-to-date with events in the different applications.
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What are widgets?
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