Add widgets to your community
Add widgets to your community to make extra functionality available to community members. You must be a community owner to add or remove widgets from a community.
Before starting
The choice of widgets that you can add to a community depends on what your administrator has made available. You can add the following types of widgets to communities:
- IBM Connections widgets. These are widgets that correspond to the IBM Connections applications. To add an IBM Connections widget to your community, the corresponding IBM Connections application must be installed in your deployment. For a full list of the IBM Connections widgets available for use in Communities, see Communities widgets.
- Custom widgets. When your administrator has enabled the use of custom widgets from another source, these are displayed in the content palette along with the IBM Connections widgets that are available for use.
About this task
Widgets are self-contained, HTML-based representations of software applications. When you add an IBM Connections widget to a community, you create an association between that community and the widget application. Membership between the community and the widget application is synchronized, and links to the full widget application are created in the community's user interface so that you can easily find and work with the full application. A summary of the latest activity is posted on the community's Overview page, and you can access the full application at any time by clicking the corresponding link in the left navigation bar.When you first create a community, it displays the following widgets by default: Forums, Bookmarks, Files, and Members. You can customize your community by adding extra widgets. For example, adding the Wiki widget gives members access to a wiki where they can share files and collaborate on project documents. Adding the Blog widget lets you create a blog for the community where members can communicate dynamically and stay up-to-date with the latest community news. The content palette displays the full selection of widgets that your administrator has made available for use in communities.
Procedure
To add a widget to your community...
- From the community's Overview page, select Community Actions -> Customize to open the content palette.
Note: You must be logged in to a community to access the Community Actions menu.
- Click a widget to add it to the community.
- Optional: Click Close palette in the top right corner to close the palette.
Results
A section containing the widget is added to the main pane of the Overview page, and a link to the full widget application displays in the navigation sidebar.
Communities widgets
As a community owner, you can add widgets to your community to make different types of functionality available to members.Moving community widgets
After adding widgets to a community, you can move them around to find a layout that suits the needs of the community.Work with community widgets
Use the options available from the widget action menu to interact with the widgets in your community. The actions that you can perform depend on your role within the community.
Parent topic
Communities overviews, how-tos, and FAQs
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