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Add more configuration documentation

Project:Web Widgets
Version:6.x-1.2
Component:Documentation
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

I just wrote some documentation about how to set up the web widget in views. Feel free to add it to your documentation.

There is currently on a 'wiki' page on a project site we are working on - so that page may change as we learn more.

This is the first draft of documentation:

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If you want to add 'web widget' to your drupal site (turn a view into a widget)

Do this:

1. Get the web widget module
2. Enable it
3. Set up your 'Default' view with the information you would like to display.
4. Add a "Web Widget" display setting.
5. In the "Web Widget" display settings - you want to make a path that will only be used for the widget.
* You probably don't want to use the path for an existing page - as it will put your entire Drupal page in the iFrame.
* You can see what the widget will look like by visiting that path after you save the view.
* If the page appears as very plain markup...that's a good sign. You only want to see the contents of your view.
6. You can attach the widget display to another display (default, page, block etc.) - it will show up below the views output by default.
7. As of this writing (7/30/2010), it seems like iFrame works, and inline has an issue in the issue queue
8. This module *does* work with javascript (views slideshow, for example) - though to get my simple slideshow of 'node titles' to display, I needed to set dimensions for the slideshow.

Comments

#1

Helpful. Thanks.

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