Posted by Niklas Heidloff | October 4, 2012
I've open sourced the generic HTML
widget and the generic XPages
widget as part of the project
XPages
for Connections.
The main purpose of these widgets is
to allow community moderators to extend communities without having to deploy
new iWidgets for every extension. Having to deploy new widgets is not easy
in some IBM Connections deployments since the community moderators are
typically not the administrators with rights to run wsadmin commands and
such. With the new generic iWidgets only the generic widgets have to be
deployed once. After this community moderators can simply add one or multiple
instances of these widgets to their communities to embed XPages or HTML.
Additionally I have deployed the widgets
to the image
that OpenNTF developers can use to build XPages/Connections integration
samples as part of the current OpenNTF
development contest.