Links Widget

Purpose

This portlet allows you to define hyperlinks for presentation in a widget. Why do this when you have the browser’s bookmarks? Because you may be on the road doing a presentation and the browser you are at does not have the link to your repository or project file!

Screenshots

The Links Widget allows you to take use important links from a remote browser, perhaps at a kiosk or customer site, where you do not have your browser bookmarks available.

Installation

Note: This version will only work with Bugs Dashboard v3.0 and up due to the use of the parameter to restrict this portlet to a specific product if desired.

To use the Links Widget, do the following:

• Copy the Links.class file at com/wmpnj/bugz/portlets into the deployed web application directory; i.e. /webapps/bugs/WEB-INF/classes/com/wmpnj/bugz/portlets. This may require that you also copy the directory “portlets” if this is the first portlet you’re deploying.
• Copy the links.properties file to the deployed web application classes directory; i.e. /webapps/bugs/WEB-INF/classes.
• Copy the links.css file to the deployed web application css directory; i.e. /webapps/bugs/WEB-INF/css.
• Update the dwr.xml file in the deployed web application WEB-INF directory; i.e. /webapps/bugs/WEB-INF. Edit the file with a text editor and add the following after the last </create> statement:
  

  <create creator="new" javascript="Link">
    <param name="class" value="com.wmpnj.bugz.portlets.Links" />
  </create>
  

• Update the portlets.properties file in the deployed web application classes directory; i.e. /webapps/bugs/WEB-INF/classes:
  • Update the first line by incrementing the count of portlets by 1
  • Add the following in the position that you want the portlet to appear within your desired column. For example, if you want the Links to appear at the top of the right-most column, you must insert this ahead of any other portlet whose column is “2″. After adding the following block, you MUST then renumber the portlets appropriately, beginning with 0, i.e. “portlet0″, “portlet1″.
    

    portlet0.title=External Links
    portlet0.column=2
    portlet0.package=com.wmpnj.bugz.portlets.Links
    portlet0.className=Link
    portlet0.method=getText
    portlet0.stylesheet=
    portlet0.javascript=
    portlet0.desc=
    portlet0.call=
    portlet0.restrictTo=
    

You may change the title and column, but do NOT change the package, className, or method!

Download

Links.zip