The iGoogle Apparatus Agenda just got better. Users can now
collaborate with a apparatus in the agenda afore abacus it to their
page. Accept a attending at a brace examples like the Google News or
Google Hot Trends gadgets.
Your accessories can accept reside previews too. Accessories that use
Agreeable view="default" already accept a reside examination in the
apparatus directory. Remember, view="default" can bout any appearance
accurate by the container. Similarly, if the Agreeable aspect in a
apparatus doesn't specify the appearance attribute, that's advised the
aforementioned as if view="default" were present. Up until now, the
alone angle that were accurate on iGoogle were home and canvas;
remember, home is the abate adaptation and canvas is the beyond version.
Some accessories are customized to affectation abnormally for the home
and canvas views. If your accessories do this, you can amend the
apparatus XML blueprint to add a different appearance for the
examination or reclaim an absolute agreeable element.
For accessories with an aspect
In this case you can just add preview, so you'll accept view="home,canvas,preview".
For accessories with
Here too, you can reclaim the home appearance for the examination by alteration your blueprint to view="home,preview".
There are some added restrictions on the way the examination works. A
examination can't use OpenSocial calls - back the user hasn't set the
OpenSocial permissions afore installing the gadget. You may wish to
abode this in your apparatus by authoritative a appropriate examination
adaptation that uses some copy data, or you can opt out of the reside
examination and stick with a changeless screenshot.
Like all apparatus views, the examination is cached. This reduces amount
and speeds up confined for users. But if you're alive on your apparatus
and don't see a contempo change in the preview, you can attenuate
caching briefly by abacus the constant "nocache=1" to the url.
Gadgets displayed as a examination aswell can't cross to added angle
application requestNavigateTo(). If your apparatus has a hotlink that
triggers alteration the appearance it will not plan in the preview.
If you feel a examination isn't the appropriate best for your apparatus
again specify the added angle (home & canvas) and be abiding that
your screenshot does a acceptable job of carrying what your apparatus
will do for users.
As always, appear to the iGoogle Developer Forum to allocution about reside apparatus previews with added iGoogle developers.
