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Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
Getting started with Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text is designed for three main user types -- end user, power user and application developer, and administrator. Policy and preferences control various access levels. Roles often overlap. For example, a power user may create and deploy widgets to end users while end users may use widgets that have been created for them, rather than create their own.
What Widgets preferences can I set?
You can use the Widgets preferences panel to specify the name of the widget catalog server, catalog, and catalog categories to install. Also use the Widgets preferences panel to toggle display of the Widgets toolbar buttons, the Tools > Widgets menu options, and the My Widgets sidebar panel.

Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
- Getting started with Widgets and Live Text
  Widgets and Live Text is designed for three main user types -- end user, power user and application developer, and administrator. Policy and preferences control various access levels. Roles often overlap. For example, a power user may create and deploy widgets to end users while end users may use widgets that have been created for them, rather than create their own.
  - What Widgets and Live Text defaults are provided?
    Enabling the Show Widget Toolbar and the My Widgets Sidebar panel option displays the My Widgets sidebar panel and the Widgets menus and toolbar. However, the administrator can use policy or preferences to control user access to various aspects of Widgets and Live Text functionality.
  - What Widgets preferences can I set?
    You can use the Widgets preferences panel to specify the name of the widget catalog server, catalog, and catalog categories to install. Also use the Widgets preferences panel to toggle display of the Widgets toolbar buttons, the Tools > Widgets menu options, and the My Widgets sidebar panel.
  - What Live Text preferences can I set?
    You can control the display of Live Text using preference panel options.
- Working with Widgets and Live Text - End users
  If you are a Widgets and Live Text end user who does not have widget creation or catalog access rights, you can act on Live Text in your active document or double-click an installed widget to start an action. Depending on your policy or preference settings, you may also be able to do other tasks, such as add a new widget to your client sidebar or My Widgets sidebar panel.
- Advanced Widgets and Live Text topics - Power users or application developers
  You can create and edit Notes® and Web-based XML extensions (widgets) and make those widgets available from a central catalog.

What Widgets preferences can I set?

You can use the Widgets preferences panel to specify the name of the widget catalog server, catalog, and catalog categories to install. Also use the Widgets preferences panel to toggle display of the Widgets toolbar buttons, the Tools > Widgets menu options, and the My Widgets sidebar panel.

About this task

The catalog is a central repository for widgets that you can add to, update, and retrieve from or be provisioned with.

These settings can be initially set using IBM® Domino® policy or the plugin_customization.ini file. Based on your policy or preferences, you may be unable to edit these preferences.

Procedure

Click File > Preferences > Widgets.

Alternatively you can click Catalog > Preferences from the My Widgets options menu.
Enable or disable the Show Widget Toolbar and the My Widgets Sidebar Panel option to show or hide the three Widgets toolbar buttons, the Tools > Widgets options, and the My Widgets sidebar panel.
Specify the catalog location using the Catalog server and Catalog name (.nsf) fields. Use the Browse button to quickly navigate to the target widget catalog server and widgets catalog application.

For Notes® users, specify the catalog server on which the widget catalog resides and the catalog name itself (for example, toolbox.nsf). For server name, use server/domain format or a fully qualified name. If you use server/domain, server failover will be supported.

Note: If you change the catalog server or catalog name, click Apply to refresh the categories list.
Specify which widget categories to install from the list of available categories.

When you click OK, widgets in the selected categories are updated in your local widgets catalog and My Widgets sidebar panel.