Widgets - populate community web pages with dynamic content by simply dragging and dropping widgets onto a page!

Within the add page or edit page view, members of a community have access to a collection of new application widgets which allow authorized members to select, drag and drop, configure and populate community Pages. And widgets follow our permission model so users will only see what they have permission to.

Current Widget Catalogue:

• Blog Articles - display community blog articles
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: choose a source (articles from all community blogs or one specific channel
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Calendar Events - displays various events from the community calendar
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Show Upcoming events or choose a date range
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Folder Contents - display folder contents in a list or table view 
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: you can choose a folder from anywhere in your community
  • Include: choose to include folders and/or documents
  • Sort Options: rating, size, type, created by, last modified by, modified or view
  • Further Sort by: ascending and descending
  • Include the following : folders and/or documents
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Forum Topics - displays designated forum topic threads
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: you can choose any forum topic
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Photos in Album - displays images in the specified album
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: you can choose any album 
  • Sort Options: created date, last modified date, image name
  • Further Sort by: ascending and descending
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Wiki Article - displays a designated wiki article
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: you can choose any wiki article
• Members - displays user information for specified group
  • Title: choose a title and whether or not to hyperlink the title to the source destination
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Group: specify which group you want to display (just one group at a time please)
  • Sort Options: date joined, status update, first name and last name
  • Further Sort by: ascending and descending
  • Number of Results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Recent Contributors - pulls in the same data from the community pulse
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Filter: show contributors from blogs, documents, forums, gallery and wiki
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Recent Activity - pulls in the same data from the community pulse
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Filter: include activity from blogs, documents, forums, gallery and wiki
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Recent Comments - displays an aggregate of all community comments
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Filter: show comments from blogs, documents, forums, gallery and wiki
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• Search Box - displays search box on any page
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Search: show search results for all of the community or blogs, calendar, documents, forums, gallery and wiki
• Navigation - displays navigational links from a subset of the community
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Source: you can choose any community page subset
• RSS Feed - feed aggregator that works on internal and external Atom & RSS feeds
  • Title: choose a title 
  • Description: include a short plain text description above the widget content
  • Feeds: you can add multiple feeds to this widget; data from the feeds display intermixed (by timestamp)
  • Number of results: determines how many results are displayed on the page
• HTML Content - the standard full editor that is used throughout the community 
  • Title: choose a title  
  • Editor: use the build in editor tools to create and format content
  • HTML Mode:  for advanced users…validate HTML code can be used to input and style content

Layout & Appearance:
Most of the widgets allow you to customize the Appearance and layout structure of the widget and its data. Some of the options available are:

Layout:

• Choose from the default layout (best suited for wider column configurations) or list views (better suited for narrower columns)
• Customize the layout by choosing to display or not to display selected items (ex: profile picture of the author)
• Decending = newest to oldest
• Ascending = oldest to newest

Appearance:

• Backgrounds and Borders - define the colours for all background and border elements (ex: title text)
• Border - define the border's size, type of corner (square vs. rounded) and style (solid vs dashes)
• Padding - define the padding within the widget area
• Class - for advanced CSS user to help in customized designs

Tips & Tricks

• The Recent Activity Widget has the ability to filter by group. This feature enhancement allows administrators to quickly and easily create group spaces within their communities that show relevant and permissioned documents, folders, activity, forums or blogs using Widgets.

• The Blog Pulse and Blog Widget are now fully compliant with your community's permission structure. Users from a group that do not have access to particular blog channels will not see these in the Pulse or Blog Widget.