Working with the Webview Gadget

The Webview gadget enables you to render a third-party website by typing in a specific URL. Secondly, using TIBCO PageBus, the Webview gadget can subscribe to messages sent from the Work Views and Business Services gadgets within Openspace.

The messages can specify a new URL or a token that can be appended to the existing URL. The Webview gadget responds by modifying the URL, and rendering the new website. The advantage of this is that if there have been any changes to the status of your work items or business services, for example, the Webview gadget can be updated to display the newly updated information dynamically.

Note: You cannot customize the Webview gadget. For example, you cannot change the gadget name, category or height and/or associate a custom thumbnail for a web page. If you want to do this, you must create an Openspace Compatible gadget, either by selecting the URL is not a Gadget Spec - it is a web site option from the Contribute Gadget dialog, or by using the GWT toolkit.

There are a number of functions on the Webview gadget that are common to all Openspace gadgets. See Common Openspace Gadget Functions for information about these functions.