Kentico CMS 6.0 Intranet Administrator's Guide

Intranet widgets and web parts

Intranet widgets and web parts

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Intranet widgets and web parts

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The portal comes with a number of widgets designed specifically for intranet scenarios. These widgets are derived from standard Kentico CMS web parts, but have most of their properties pre-configured so that the required configuration is limited to the minimum. In any case, you can always modify the configuration of the widgets in Site Manager -> Development -> Widgets. Some of the widgets have their properties configured depending on the default alias paths of certain documents in the content tree. For more information on this topic, please refer to Customizing the portal -> Modifying structure of the website.

 

All intranet widgets are stored in the Intranet Portal widget category. Other widget categories are also available, but the widgets in them are meant for general use and it may be necessary to pre‑configure the properties of these widgets according to the document structure of the portal website. Each of the widgets can be used in one of the following scenarios:

 

User widgets - can be used by live site users on their personalizable pages, typically on the My Dashboard page.

Editor widgets - can be used by website editors on the Page tab in CMS Desk, typically on the Home page of the global portal or of individual departments.

Workgroup widgets - can be used by workgroup administrators, typically on each workgroup's Home page.

 

The following paragraphs describe widgets in each of these three categories.

 

User widgets

 

General widgets

 

The following widgets are available in the root of the Intranet Portal category:

 

My blogs - based on the Repeater web part, displays all blogs belonging to the current user.

My blogs comments - based on the Blog comments viewer web part, displays blog comments from all blogs belonging to the current user.

My workgroups - based on the Groups viewer web part, displays all workgroups to which the current user belongs.

 

Project management widgets

 

The following widgets are available in the Intranet Portal/Project management sub-category:

 

My projects - Intranet Portal - based on the My projects web part, displays all projects for which the current user has access permissions.

Tasks assigned to me - Intranet Portal - based on the Tasks assigned to me web part, displays all tasks assigned to the current user.

Tasks owned by me - Intranet Portal - based on the Tasks owned by me web part, displays all tasks owned by the current user.

 

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Editor widgets

 

The following widgets are available in the Intranet Portal widget category when adding widgets to pages on the Page tab in CMS Desk.

 

General widgets

 

The following widgets are available in the root of the Intranet Portal category:

 

Employee of the month - based on the Editable image web part, displays an image selected by a website editor.

Intranet canteen menu - based on the Static HTML web part, displays a pre-defined text, typically a weekly canteen menu.

Intranet departments - based on the Repeater web part, displays a list of all existing departments.

Intranet employees - based on the Users viewer web part, displays a list of all users of the system (i.e. company employees).

Intranet latest blog posts - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest blog posts published in the portal's global section.

Intranet latest forum posts - based on the Forum posts viewer web part, displays latest posts from the global section's forums.

Intranet latest news - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest news published in the portal's global section.

Intranet poll - based on the Poll web part, displays a poll where users can vote to express their opinion.

Intranet quick links - based on the Static HTML web part, contains customizable links leading to the most frequently used sub-sections of the portal.

Intranet upcoming events - based on the Repeater web part, displays the latest events scheduled on the Events page of the global section.

 

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Department widgets

 

The following widgets are available in the Intranet Portal/Departments sub-category:

 

Department latest blog posts - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest blog posts published in the current department's section.

Department latest forum posts - based on the Forum posts viewer web part, displays latest posts from the current department's forums.

Department latest news - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest news published in the current department's section.

Department quick links - based on the Static HTML web part, contains customizable links leading to the Home page of the portal and sub-sections of the current department.

Department upcoming events - based on the Repeater web part, displays the latest events scheduled in the current department's calendar.

 

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Workgroup widgets

 

The following widgets can be found in the Intranet Portal widget category when adding widgets to workgroup pages:

 

Workgroup administrators - based on the Group members viewer web part, displays all administrators of the current workgroup.

Workgroup latest blog posts - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest blog posts published in the current workgroup's section.

Workgroup latest forum posts - based on the Group forum posts viewer web part, displays latest forum posts published in the current workgroup's section.

Workgroup latest news - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest news published in the current workgroup's section.

Workgroup members - based on the Group members viewer web part, displays all members of the current workgroup.

Workgroup messages - based on the Group message board viewer web part, displays latest messages from the current workgroup's message board.

Workgroup quick links - based on the Static HTML web part, contains customizable links leading to the Home page of the portal and sub-sections of the current workgroup.

Workgroup recent pages - based on the Repeater web part, displays the latest wiki pages in the current workgroup's section.

Workgroup upcoming events - based on the Repeater web part, displays latest events scheduled in the current workgroup's calendar.

 

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