Widgets are standalone applications that can be added to the Lotus Notes sidebar. These can come from external sources, such as Google, or they can be created and distributed internally by your Domino administrator. You can also create your own widgets.
All of this work will be done in your preferences and your widget sidebar in the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client. To obtain the new IBM social widgets, you can go to https://greenhouse.lotus.com/.
Here you will see how to get manage and add widgets to your sidebar.
There are several ways to add a widget to your client, or My Widgets sidebar. If you do not see your widget sidebar, enable it from the Widgets preferences.
The widget appears as a new sidebar panel item and will appear in your sidebar each time you start Notes. Using this method creates the widget with the option Add as a panel on startup.
The following are a few ways to add an existing widget to the My Widgets sidebar panel:
You can remove widgets from the sidebar.
To remove a widget from your sidebar, right-click on it and select Remove:
Provisioned widgets can not be removed.
IBM has introduced a suite of widgets that work in the Lotus Notes client to access and update IBM Connections. In order for these widgets to work, you must have IBM Connections as well. To obtain these widgets you can go to https://greenhouse.lotus.com/. You will need a Greenhouse account. If you do not have one, you can join at the same URL.
Once you download the installer, launch it and the installation wizard will take you through the installation.
In Preferences under Connections, fill out the requested information.
Only two of these widgets will be described here, they are the Status Updates widget and the Files widget. In Connections you can see status updates for users that you follow. Using this widget you can also update your status to Connections. When using the Status Updates widget and Connections 4.0, you can do the following from the widget in your Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client:
Connections 4.0 allows you to store and share files with other users in your organization. When using the Files widget and Connections 4.0, you can do the following from the widget in your Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client:
As you can see, widgets extend the Lotus Notes client and can be a convenient way to follow and update IBM Connections without ever leaving your Lotus Notes client.
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