Designing Pages with Widgets

Several parts of the community support customization with widgets. The parts you can customize depend on your role (such as whether or not you're an administrator).

If your community is connected to another community (via what's called a "bridge"), then you might also able to use widgets that are in the other community. Members of both the current community and the remote (or bridged) one can use remotely available widgets to get views into content and activity on the remote community.

Here's the quick-and-easy look at designing a page with widgets.

1. To start customizing a page, go to the tab that will display your layout.
   • If you're personalizing the home page, this will be the Your View tab.
   • If you're customizing an overview page, this will be the Overview tab.

   You'll get a layout screen with a set of widgets listed at the top and a default layout beneath it.

2. In the layout area beneath, find widgets you don't want displayed on the page and click their Remove this widget link (it's under the arrow in the widget's upper right corner).
3. In the widgets list above, find widgets you want and drag them onto the layout area.

   If you're connected to another community you're a member of, click the tab with that community's name to get a list of the widgets related to that community.

   
4. Tailor a widget to your needs by clicking its Edit this widget link (it's under the little arrow in the widget's upper right corner).
   
   
5. Click a layout to arrange your layout's columns.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 until you have what you want, then click Publish Layout.

By default, there are a number of widgets you can use to expose content from inside or outside the community, or to add content that appears only on the space overview page. Here's a list of the widgets that indicates whether the widget can be used remotely from a bridged community.

The following sections correspond to each of the kinds of pages you can customize. They list the widgets and the categories they belong to. In general, most of the widgets are used by all of the pages, but there are a few differences.