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Subscribe via EmailFollowing on from my post about the new Widgets technotes, Luis Benitez has added some more context:
The landing page of Lotus Connections can be easily extended by IT. An administrator has total control of which widgets can be deployed to the page. An end-user has total control of which widgets they want to see and the layout of these widgets.I know from previous discussions with Luis that he is really excited to get this content out there, so please do take a look and give some thought as to how you could enhance your Connections 2.0 installation with the many Google Gadgets out there, or else develop your own to interface with existing applications in your environment...
In the meantime, you should know that one of the easiest ways to get started with widgets, is by using existing ones. I recently worked with a customer where we added Google Gadgets to the Lotus Connections Home Page. And we did this in a matter of minutes!!! Thinks about this for a second... and envision the vast variety of Google Gadgets out there. How cool is it that you can get one of these loaded into Lotus Connections in a matter of minutes??? Awesome, huh??!!
Adding Google Gadgets to the Lotus Connections Home page
Today, we finally have the step-by-step procedure on how to do this! The article also explains, at a high-level, how to create your own iWidget (if you weren't using the Lotus Widget Factory). Here's a sample of how the Google Date and Time Gadget looks, as a widget, in the Lotus Connections Home page:
What does this mean? You now have free out-of-the box integration with:
* Facebook (for those of you who weren't too happy with my first approach)
* RSS readers
* MySpace
* Skype
* Google Docs
* or with whatever any of the 45,000+ Google Gadgets provide!
Additionally, remember that the Profiles page is also made up of widgets. Therefore, you could also deploy the Google Gadgets to the Profiles page. Neat, eh? Ready to get started? You'll find the article and the sample widget here. Enjoy!
By: Connections Blog (Stuart McIntyre) | 1 Comments | On: 10 September 2008 07:29:18 | Tags: connections widgets lotus
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