Exporting Widgets To Other Websites

You can publish its widgets to other websites via OpenSocial. This lets you provide your widget or content in the context of another website. Read on to find out how this is done.

Sharing OpenSocial Gadgets

OpenSocial consists of a set of APIs for social networking. It may be beneficial for you to share widgets from your server with other sites, such as ighome.com or igoogleportal.com. These sites let users customize their own pages with gadgets. Users can share Liferay DXP widgets on any OpenSocial-compatible site. Liferay DXP does this by sharing the widget’s URL with the OpenSocial platform. This URL is unique to the user’s specific widget instance. Users can therefore share multiple instances of the same widget as different OpenSocial gadgets.

Follow these steps to share a widget with OpenSocial:

1. Add the widget you want to share to a site page.

2. Click the widget’s Options icon () and select Configuration.

3. In the Sharing tab, open the OpenSocial Gadget section.

4. Set the selector to YES for Allow users to add [widget name] to an OpenSocial platform. In the OpenSocial Gadget URL field, replace localhost:8080 with the name of your public domain and port.

5. Click Save.

6. Close the dialog and click the widget’s Options icon (). There’s a new option available named Add to an OpenSocial Platform. Select this option to add the widget to a page on an OpenSocial platform.

Figure 1: You can share widgets via OpenSocial.