Google Gadgets in WCM
A gadget is a mini web application running on a platform and you can put it in a web page. This is a small application that helps users take some private actions.
eXo Portal supports some gadgets such as: Todo gadget, Calendar gadget, Calculator gadget, Weather Forecasts, RSS Reader gadget.
- Todo: This mini - application helps you organize your day and work group.
- Calendar: A cool calendar to keep track of date in style.
- Calculator: This is the coolest calculator for your page.
- RSS Reader: This gadget lets you get a sneak preview of your favourite feeds around web
- Weather Forecasts: This gadget notifies you of current weather condition and gives tomorrow's forecast.
With WCM version 1.1, we can easily insert and edit gadgets into a web content. Only with some click mouse you can insert gadgets for your content. We can do as follow:
- Login WCM program.
- When creating the web content, click the
icon on the main content.
- After clicking to insert a gadget icon, it will display a form to choose a gadget. In which we can see all gadgets, which is supported by eXo WCM version.1.1 as picture:

4. You can choose one or more gadget to insert into a web content. In here you can insert by double clicking on the gadget that you want to insert. After inserting a gadget, you can edit this gadget by double left clicking on this gadget, it will display form to edit a gadget:

5. After inserting, we can see by viewing the web content: