Latest updates about IBM Mashup Center widgets on IBM Lotus Greenhouse

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Anna G O'Neal on March 1, 2010 | Version 18

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1 Understanding the widgets on Greenhouse
2 Latest updates

This article provides updates about the widgets that are currently available with the IBM Greenhouse-hosted version of IBM Mashup Center 2.0, available at https://greenhouse.lotus.com/home/html/index.jsp. After you log in, locate IBM Mashup Center in the right column under Quick Actions.

Understanding the widgets on Greenhouse

Before you start using Mashup Center on Greenhouse, we recommend that you become familiar with the widgets that are available for you to use. Widgets that are hosted on Greenhouse fall into the following three categories:

Widgets in the default palette

By default, the Mashup Center palette in Greenhouse comes preloaded with widgets that are already installed and ready for you to drag onto your mashup pages. For more information about these widgets, including how to configure them with data sources and wire them to other widgets, see the Widget help category in the Mashup Center wiki.

Widgets that you can add to the default palette

The Mashup Center catalog contains several widgets that you can add to the default palette in Greenhouse. You can link directly to each of these widgets individually by clicking the Greenhouse widget links below.

If you locate a widget that you want to add to the default palette when you are browsing the catalog, simply hover your cursor over the widget to display the action buttons, and then click Add to
Mashup Builder. Follow the steps until you see a message telling you that the widget was added successfully. When you return to the mashup builder, refresh your page and confirm that the widget is in the specified category.

Note: When searching for widgets in the catalog, be sure that you select widgets that are not WAR packages. To avoid confusion, the Greenhouse team usually tags those widgets as WAR files. These widget names often contain the term WAR in the titles themselves. If you attempt to add a WAR package to the Greenhouse palette, you will get an error.

Widget WAR packages available for download

Widget WAR packages are available for several of the widgets that you can add to your palette in Greenhouse. You can link directly to each of these widgets individually by clicking the WAR packages links below. These WAR packages are available to install in your own local or on-site version of Mashup Center that is hosted somewhere outside of Greenhouse. These widgets are available for download only.

Latest updates

The following table provides information about the widgets that are available on Greenhouse. Simply open the catalog to search for and use these widgets.

AccuWeather

Description: AccuWeather, established in 1962, is the world's weather authority. AccuWeather provides local forecasts for everywhere in the United States and over two million locations worldwide.
Greenhouse widget (last updated January 14, 2010)
WAR package (last updated February 16, 2010)

Connections

Description: This bundle contains the following demo widgets for accessing IBM Lotus Connections:

Blogs
Bookmarks
Communities
Profiles
Tag Cloud

Each widget exposes events that support mashups.

Note: By default, these widgets are designed to work with the version of Lotus Connections that is installed on Greenhouse. This version allows anonymous access to all components except Profiles. If you want to access the Profiles component, you must first connect to different Lotus Connections server with public access or to your own single sign-on--enabled server where Lotus Connections is installed.
Greenhouse widget (last updated )
WAR package (last updated )