Home page widgets

The home page on the Portal can be customised with various widgets and placements. Some widgets can have child widgets.

Control Center

Displays information about the user including their avatar, name, title, and a brief status message generated based on the user's information throughout the Portal. Also shows any unread notifications.

Feed

Shows Portal announcements and RSS/Atom feeds from user specified sources in a newest to oldest top to bottom layout. If a feed does not provide an author, the domain name of the feed will be shown instead. New feeds can be managed from a user's feeds settings page.

Horizontal Layout Box

Used to contain other widgets in a horizontal layout.

Page List

Displays lists of pages that a user has access to. This widget shows pages that a user has permission to use. It can be set to be "inclusive," which will show only pages that belong to a particular category, or "exclusive," which shows all pages in categories outside of categories which are provided.

Search Widget

A quick searchbox for Google.

Timer Widget

A single timer which a user can set.

Vertical Layout Box

Used to contain other widgets in a vertical layout.

Weather

Shows weather for a user's location.