About Widget

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

Can anybody tell me about widget.please send me docs about widget.its urgent

Thanks,

Prasad K

[Former Member]

speaking of widgets...can some tell me whether it is better to develop these with Netweaver Developer's Studio (SAP widget development perspective) or to do so using notepad?

I am having some issues with some code the I copied and pasted from a widget tutorial into notepad and tried to lauch from the Yahoo! Widget dock. Nothing happends and so I am thinking of trying with NW developer studio instead.

Any ideas or comments??

[Former Member]

Hi Nyrvole,

Widgets can easily be developed using SAP Widget Development Tool. This tool is used as a plug in for Eclipse.

Refer to SAP widget development guide.

Regards,

Sumangala

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

Widget are small desktop application which can be used to access wide range of services like weather forecasts, latest new, dictionary or language translation, calendar, map information etc.

Widget Engine is a javascript runtime environment for executing widgets (small desktop applications) over Operating System. Popular Widget Engines include Yahoo! Widget Engine, Dashboard Widgets for Apple Machintosh, Google Desktop, Gadgets in Microsoft Vista etc.

A Widget Engine interprets XML tag libraries describing various attributes of a widget like image source, window size, title, version, platform, preferences etc. JavaScript is used for defining actions and performing event handling in the widget or in other words JavaScript provides interactivity to Widgets.

Since Javascript is very effecient in manipulating XML objects thus rich functionalities could be easily developed in Widgets.

Advantages of Widgets:-

1. Easy to Develop - they are developed using Scripting Languages like Javascript.

2. Easy to Customize - they make use of standarized technologies like XML, RSS, Web Service etc.

3. Easy to Use - provides easy access to frequently used functions.

4. Better user experience - they are good for displaying visual information.

5. Provides Multitasking capabilities - multiple Widgets or mutliple instances of a same Widget can run simultaneously.

6. Light weight Technology - does not require large amount of resources and can run on PCs.

7. Easy to Install and Distribute - Widget source consists of text files and resources bundled in ZIP format hence can be easily distributed and installed.

8. Quickly Launched - Widgets are small applications and can be quickly launched.

9. Personalization and Configuration - Using Preference settings in Widgets Personalization and Customizability can be acheived.

Also read through these:-

[SAP Widget Foundation and Widget Development Tool|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/b03b6544-c741-2a10-8999-ed04eb2b2c71]

[Creation of a BI Data Widget|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6142] [original link is broken];

Hope these help you out,

Regards,

Shailesh Nagar

[Former Member]

hi kumar,

Thanks for the reply.one more thing how to Execute a BI report using a widget

Regards,

Prasad K

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

Look at this wiki:-

[BI -WIKI|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/bi/programming%2bin%2bbw]

Navigate to Widgets in this Wiki, and find a range of Wikis for BI.

Please reward points if helpful

Regards,

Shailesh Nagar