Mashup toolbox

The widgets that users can add to a mashup page are organized in a toolbox. Users can use the default toolbox or customize it to their personal toolbox.

Depending on the used theme, the toolbox becomes visible when a user creates a new page or switches to Edit mode on an existing mashup page. The toolbox provides a collection of drawers that represent categories. These contain a number of widgets that users can drag onto the mashup page.

Administrators determine the initial layout for the toolbox, but they can leave it up to the individual users to customize it to best suit their needs.

By default all users get the same set of categories and widgets. When a user adds widgets from the hub, or removes them from the default toolbox, a personalized copy of the toolbox is made for that user and the changes are applied. From then on the user has a personalized version of the toolbox, which is persisted into the portal databases for that user.

Administrators can use different methods to determine which widgets to display to new users, or to make new widgets available to users who have already customized their toolbox. The default toolbox is defined as a catalog XML file and is stored in the portal WP Mashup Binary Config Service Resource Environment Provider (REP) in WAS. Administrators can update the widget list in the administrative console to suit their needs.


Include support

The use of include statements inside the toolbox definition xml file allows administrators to dynamically configure and control which categories and which widgets under these categories can be viewed. Administrators might want to add new widgets or remove obsolete widgets, and have this change reflected in all users' toolboxes, whether they are personalized or not. Note that widgets that were included by an include statement cannot be removed from the current toolbox. There are three types of include support:
Catalog level includes format


Category level includes


Group includes


Parent

Overview of portal mashup integration
Configuration options for the mashups toolbox

 


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