Widgets in spaces

By itself, a widget typically has limited or specific capabilities. However, you can combine widgets to interact with each other to perform related tasks. Widgets can communicate with each other so that events in one widget affect the contents of a different widget.

You can minimize, maximize, and drag widgets while laying out a page. In addition, each widget has a menu that contains actions that you can perform on the widget and a Help option, which links to information about that widget. In addition, you can convert a widget into a hidden widget. A hidden widget is fully functional but does not display on a page. Typically, you hide widgets such as the Script Adapter widget, which, instead of displaying server data, transforms business data so that another widget can use it. Other than not displaying on a page, a hidden widget is like a visible widget. That is, you can change its settings, wire it to other widgets, and so on.

The widget palette contains categories of widgets that you can use to configure the pages in your spaces. You can use the categories to filter out the widgets that are not in the category that you select. You can see all of the available widgets by selecting All Widgets in the list of categories.