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Overview

The widget uploader provides a simple web-based user interface for uploading new widgets to the system, and for managing existing widgets.

The widget uploader can be accessed from <ROOT_URL>/widgetUploader.jsp (eg http://infinite.ikanow.com/widgetUploader.jsp).

This brings up username and password fields and a login button.

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Two things to note:

In order to login with admin privileges (for admins only!), append "?sudo"or "?sudo=true" to the URL (eg http://infinite.ikanow.com/widgetUploader.jsp?sudo).
- If you are not logged-in with admin privileges you will only be able to edit your own widgets, and will only be able to add widgets to communities you own or on which you are a moderator.
If you are logged-in to the Infinit.e main GUI, you are not automatically logged-in to the widget uploader
- (however the converse is true - if you bring up the main GUI after logging-in to the widget uploader, you will be auto-logged-in)

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The above figure shows the tool immediately after log-in.

To upload the widget, simply populate the fields shown above and then "submit". Some further information on fields is described below:

All fields are mandatory except the description field (which is used for the mouse-over pop up in the main GUI)
There are 2 ways of providing the ".swf" for the widget (and also its icon):
- Upload them from your hard disk using the "Browse..." buttons.
- Select the "Provide URL" checkbox and then enter a URL into the "Swf FIle" or "Icon Image" filenames
  - You can use the substitution variable "$infinite" to point to whatever the root URL is (eg "infinite.ikanow.com"), see the example screenshot below.
The icon image size should be 180x160 for best results.
The version number field is not used by the system, it is for your configuration management purposes only.
Note that no de-duplication checks are made, so if you enter an identical widget to one that already exists, you will get 2 widgets that look the same. To edit an existing widget, see below under the next section.
You can select either a single or multiple (CTRL+click) communities. You must be the owner or moderator of the communities (or an administrator logged in with "?sudo").

An example is shown below:

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