Adding new ways to share content
Create your own gadgets and add them to the Share dialog.
About this task
IBM® Connections provides a quick way to share content with others. From anywhere in IBM Connections, users can click Share. To enable an OpenSocial gadget in the Share dialog, you must edit the gadget xml file and then add the gadget by using the Administration option on the Home page.
You can create your own gadgets and add them to the Share dialog. In this context, your gadgets should probably allow a user to share content with other users, but you can add anything.
You can add the following features
to your gadget:
- A feature to close the share dialog from the gadget; for example, add a Close button to your gadget that closes the Share dialog.
- A feature to inform the dialog of a submit state; for example, show a progress indicator while data is being submitted.