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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

You're reading from   IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide A practical hands-on user guide with time saving tips and comprehensive instructions for using Lotus Notes effectively and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680202
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karen Hooper Karen Hooper
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. First Impressions (The Client Interface) FREE CHAPTER 2. To Chat or Not to Chat: Lotus Sametime 3. Feeds 4. Working with Widgets 5. Mastering Lotus Notes Mail 6. Lotus Notes Mail Tools 7. Managing Contacts 8. Calendar and To Dos 9. Working with Lotus Notes Applications 10. Working Remotely (Replication/Synchronization) 11. Symphony Index

Adding widgets


As I have discussed, there are several places to select widgets from. I have given some examples of different types of widgets that we can add from different places. Following are the steps to add a widget from the Greenhouse catalog; from a web page and from the Google Gadget directory.

Adding a Gas Price widget from the IBM Greenhouse catalog

We will add a widget from the Greenhouse catalog, which is available on the IBM Lotus Greenhouse website: http://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog . To use this website, we must register and give a business e-mail address.

  1. Go to http://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog (don't forget we will have to register with a business e-mail address) and search for gas prices as shown in the next screenshot. Click to open the IBM local gas prices widget for Motortrend.com. Once opened, click the Start Download button on the page and finally click I Agree on the license prompt page.

  2. Once the download is complete, we will see a Drag and drop install area; we need...

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