This mini tutorial is designed for business users who want to learn how to create a real-world mashup that retrieves and displays data stored in various Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. In this scenario, you work for an insurance company, and you have been assigned the task of creating a mashup that ...

In this tutorial, you will learn the endtoend process of using Lotus Widget Factory to create a REST Service widget and publish it to the IBM® Mashups catalog for others to use. You will learn how to turn data from a spreadsheet into a format that you can use in your mashups and then display the ...

When you wire widgets together, you create the communication line that allows data to pass from one widget to another. This data is defined by the event name, the payload (the actual content), and the payload type. The event name provides descriptive information about the event. For example, the ...

Before you can configure Lotus Mashups to move from DB2 to file-based persistence, you must prepare a local or network directory that can be accessed in Read/Write mode by the Lotus Mashups server. In

In this tutorial, you will follow four scenario-based modules to learn how to use the Data Editor widget to transform data in your mashups. Using examples from feeds that you create from spreadsheets, you will learn how to use the Data Editor widget to filter, group, and sort data. You will learn ...

In this tutorial, you will learn the end-to-end process of using IBM® Mashup Center to create a real-world mashup and publish it to the catalog for others to use. You will learn how to turn data from a spreadsheet into a format that you can use in your mashups and then display the data in a ...

The Regular Expression widget receives data from another widget, runs a regular expression on the data to find and replace one or more characters, and then publishes the converted data for other widge

The Feed Reader widget receives a feed URL from another widget on the page and displays the content generated from the feed. The Feed Reader widget can also send the URL of the item that users click i

The Data Editor widget uses common operations such as sort, filter, and truncate to transform content received from one widget into outgoing content to be sent to a second widget. Using the Data Edito