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Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
Working with Widgets and Live Text - End users
If you are a Widgets and Live Text end user who does not have widget creation or catalog access rights, you can act on Live Text in your active document or double-click an installed widget to start an action. Depending on your policy or preference settings, you may also be able to do other tasks, such as add a new widget to your client sidebar or My Widgets sidebar panel.
How do I control Live Text display?
Toggle the display of Live Text on or off per session, active document, or even by recognizer type.

Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
- Getting started with Widgets and Live Text
  Widgets and Live Text is designed for three main user types -- end user, power user and application developer, and administrator. Policy and preferences control various access levels. Roles often overlap. For example, a power user may create and deploy widgets to end users while end users may use widgets that have been created for them, rather than create their own.
- Working with Widgets and Live Text - End users
  If you are a Widgets and Live Text end user who does not have widget creation or catalog access rights, you can act on Live Text in your active document or double-click an installed widget to start an action. Depending on your policy or preference settings, you may also be able to do other tasks, such as add a new widget to your client sidebar or My Widgets sidebar panel.
  - How do I control Live Text display?
    Toggle the display of Live Text on or off per session, active document, or even by recognizer type.
  - What can I do with Live Text?
    Live Text appears in the active document as dash-underlined text. When you hover over a Live Text instance, a blue drop down arrow icon displays to the right of the underlined text. You can then left-click to open a Live Text context menu of options. You can also use the Tools > Show Live Text and Actions menu option.
  - How do I build a Live Text dashboard?
    You can open a dashboard of one or more widgets actions that have been deployed to you, or that you have created as sidebar widgets, to jointly act on a Live Text instance in your active document.
  - What do I do when a widget or Live Text action prompts me to authenticate?
    If a Web-based or feed-based widget requires authentication, you must authenticate before using it. For example, when you click on a Live Text item, you will be prompted to enter a user name and password when the target widget for that Live Text requires authentication.
  - What are the My Widgets sidebar panel toolbar options?
    The My Widgets sidebar panel toolbar contains options for accessing the widget catalog and controlling your sidebar panel view state.
  - How do I add a widget to the My Widgets or client sidebar panel?
    Add a widget to your client or My Widgets sidebar panel in any of the following ways.
  - What can I do with a widget panel in the client sidebar?
    In addition to acting on Live Text, you may also be able to see and add widget panels in your client sidebar.
  - How do I add an emailed widget?
    You can add an emailed widget attachment to your My Widgets sidebar panel.
- Advanced Widgets and Live Text topics - Power users or application developers
  You can create and edit Notes® and Web-based XML extensions (widgets) and make those widgets available from a central catalog.

How do I control Live Text display?

Toggle the display of Live Text on or off per session, active document, or even by recognizer type.

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You can control Live Text display using the Live Text preferences panel or the Tools action menu options.

Hover over an individual Live Text instance in the active document and select Live Text Preferences to open the Live Text preferences panel.
Toggle the display of Live Text using Tools menu options.
Turn off the display of all Live Text in the active document by hovering over a Live Text instance and toggling off the Recognize Live Text in this Document option.
Hover over a Live Text instance and disable Live Text display for that specific recognized Live Text type, such as address, using the Stop Recognizing > type option.
Enable or disable display of a specific recognized text type using the Recognizers tab in the Widget Management view or the Live Text preference panel.
Enable or disable display of the supplied, advanced recognizers using the Recognizer tab in the Widget Management view. That recognizer name for people, addresses, and organizations is Advanced Recognizer for the USA in the Recognizer tab view.
Administrators can enable or disable Live Text display using a Domino® policy or Eclipse™ preference. There is a similar policy and preference for enabling the display of the supplied, advanced recognizers.
Power® users can enable or disable the Recognize All Content option on their My Widgets options menu to control whether Live Text is visible or not based on whether the recognizers are part of an associated action.

Starting with Notes 9, you can also customize the 5-second delay that occurs before Live Text recognizes data when you open a document. To change the delay, add the following setting to the plugin_customization.ini file, located in [NotesHome]/framework/rcp:

com.ibm.notes.client.annotation/annotateDelay=[the desired delay (in milliseconds)]

For example:

com.ibm.notes.client.annotation/annotateDelay=3000 is a 3-second annotation delay
com.ibm.notes.client.annotation/annotateDelay=0 will not have any delay