Developing for Monitor dashboard spaces (deprecated)

IBM® provides widgets in IBM Business Monitor. In addition, you can create your own custom widgets and integrate them within dashboard spaces to provide custom content for your business.

Overview of widgets (deprecated)
A widget is an application or dynamic content that can be placed into a page in a Monitor dashboard space.
Migrating custom widgets
When you migrate IBM Business Monitor to V8.5.6, you must migrate your custom dashboard widgets to the prerequisites, specifications, and formats of IBM Business Monitor V8.5.6. Support for custom iWidgets was deprecated in V8.5.5. When you migrate IBM Business Monitor to V8.5.6, you must migrate your custom widgets that are used in Process Portal spaces to the prerequisites, specifications, and formats of IBM Business Monitor V8.5.6. Support for custom iWidgets was deprecated in V8.5.0.
Creating widgets (deprecated)
To create custom widgets, you create the files for the widgets, create a catalog file to register the widgets, and then package and deploy the widgets.
Opening temporary pages using code (deprecated)
You can code a widget to open a page from another Monitor dashboard space as a temporarily visible page. The page can have data relevant to the current space.
Switching pages using code (deprecated)
You can make the Monitor dashboard switch the page that a user can see.

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