Hi,

I wanted to create a dashboard with 2 gadgets.

In one of the gadgets I want to include all hyperlinks which can take me to corresponding intranet/internet webpage.

In other gadget I wanted to have a feature where I can include my favourite links like folder location of windows so that I can directly go from PMF to windows folder.

How to give that functionality in gadget?

Thanks

How you would do this depends on a lot more factors than you are providing. It would definitely require programming knowledge and some knowledge of javascript and HTML-DOM.

For the gadget with the list of favorite web links, the questions are:

• Is this dashboard just for you or is it for all users at the site?
  
• Is the list of links universal to all users (e.g., the same list for everyone) or is is personal to each user?
  
• What dependencies are there for the list? Is it dependent on scorecard and related measures, user ID, etc.
  
• Will all users have access to the web resources in the links or are these private to some users and not to others?
  
• Who determines what is in a user's list?
  

There are many ways to accomplish a gadget with the list of favorite web links. If they are very personal and you want to minimize your coding work, you could write a JS app that accesses the universal *favorites* object in the browser DOM and let the user use their browser favorites feature to save the list of links. But the user would have to know how to add favorites in their browser.

If the list also needs to be managed by someone else, but is personal to each user, you could create a little app with a database to store and manage links by user and a WebFOCUS report with hyperlinks to bring up each user's list, and an add button to add the content that's personal for them, and the capability for an admin to add links for them. The list would be filtered by the user's ID in that case (OWNER_ID in PMF).

Or if it's a public list that's always the same, you could take advantage of PMF's content management, and create a gadget that lists content in a particular category, create a gadget with a built category filter (including a category you set up yourself in the content panel in PMF). We have been looking for a gadget like that, so if you decide to build that one, we should get it exported to a GDG and we can put it out for public consumption, with full credit to you.

thanks

The second item you list is a little more risky to build because access to a local Windows folder is very much a private affair. You could build such a gadget of course (there is a FILE:// protocol in HTTP) but it would only work for users that had access to the specific disk drive in question. There is also the potential of a user running a program or something else from the file system so you'd have to take that into account. Perhaps we're not really hearing what you want here so please respond with more information.


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