• Healthcare portals have regular site visitors who desire the same information each time they visit. Enable visitors to receive allergy, fitness, nutrition, and appointment information whenever they log in – your site visitors may even save recipes to their nutrition tab.
• Clothing store customers are fashion-minded individuals who like to view the latest styles on these websites. Let them view the department they always go to first with the click of a button. Clothing widgets can show what’s available in their size. This personalization will increase site traffic and sales.
• Banking sites can let users access personal account widgets, and separate it from their business financial information.
• Schools personalize their website for each student and parent. Personalized portals let students have widgets such as school e-mail, personalized school calendars (with their homework, project due dates and social events), feeds linked directly to their grades, a school library search tool, and more to keep them connected and informed.

Using a Personalization Page

To access a personalization page, a membership user logs in then clicks My profile > Dashboard.

Individual page

Group page

Creating an Individual Personalization Page

After you create a personalization page, place a link to it on your site. Then, any authenticated membership user can use the page to create a personal portal.

A widgetWidgets are mini-applications that you place on a Web page using PageBuilder; a widget provides either specific functionality (calculators, search, social bars, etc.) or areas into which you can add content (content blocks, list summaries, collections, and so on). space declares which widgets a user or community group member can drop on a personalization page. Widgets appear in the personalization screen’s widget tray when a membership user is personalizing a page. You can create and modify these types of widget spaces:

• User space— widgets that can be applied to a user's profile.
• Group space—widgets that can be applied to a community group. See Also: Creating a Group Personalization Page

  For example, suppose you want a NASCAR community group members to be able to place only weather and news feed widgets onto the group's personalization page. You would:

  1. Create a widget space.
  2. Select only weather and news feed widgets.
  3. Sign on to Visual Studio to create the .aspx page.
  4. Place a Personalization user control onto the page.
  5. In the control’s widgetspaceID property, identify the widget space you created in Step 1.

NOTE: Another type of widget space, Workarea Dashboard, determines which widgets are available to users when customizing their Smart Desktop.

Prerequisite

To access this screen, you must be a member of the Administrators group

1. Go to Workarea > Settings > Configuration > Personalizations > Widgets. See Also: Widget Reference
2. Click Synchronize Widgets from the Website/Widgets Folder to make sure all widgets are available.
3. Go to Settings > Configuration > Personalizations > Widget Space.
4. Click Add a Widget Space.
5. Enter a Title.
6. Click Group Space to use the widget space for a community group personalization page, or click User Space to use widget space for a user's personalization page.
7. Select widgets that authorized users will be able to place onto a page.
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   As you select a widget, its background color change

8. Click Add a Widget Space.

   IMPORTANT: Remember your widget space’s ID number. You need it when setting up the Personalization user control.

   NOTE: The rest of this procedure explains how to create a personal portal for a membership user. To learn how to create a portal for a community group, see Creating a Group Personalization Page.

9. Open Visual Studio.
10. Create a new Web Form.
11. Switch to design view.
12. From the Toolbox, drag and drop an Ajax Extensions > Script Manager control.
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    NOTE: If you do not see a Script Manager control, install the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5. To do this, go to Microsoft ASP.net Download.

13. In the Visual Studio folder browser, open the workarea/personalization/ folder.
14. Drag and drop a Personalization user control (personalization.ascx).
15. Set the control’s widgetspaceid property to the ID number of the widget space you added in Step 8.
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16. Save the Web Form.
17. Your page should redirect the user to the personalization page, or use an ASP.NET panel to verify that user is authenticated. Here is sample code:
    

    NOTE: The asp.net panels are implemented in eIntranet and Ektron Tech site.

    Aspx.cs

    // To check if user is logged in or not
    Ektron.Cms.CommonApi IsUserLoggedIn = new Ektron.Cms.CommonApi();
    if (IsUserLoggedIn.IsLoggedIn)
    {
    Response.Redirect(“dashboard.aspx”);
    Or
    pnlDashboard.Visible= true;
    }
    Else
    {
    pnlDashboard.Visible=false;
    }

    Aspx

    <asp:Panel ID="pnlDashboard" runat="server" Visible="False">
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" 
      EnablePartialRendering="true">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    <ucEktron:Personalization ID="widgetSpace" WidgetSpaceID="1"
      DynamicForeignIDParameter="id" runat="server" />
    </asp:Panel>

18. The Synchronize Widgets screen helps you synchronize widgets in your website’s siteroot/widgets folder with those in your Workarea. If you need to make them available within the Workarea, click Synchronize Widgets from the Website/Widgets Folder.
    

    The Synchronize Widgets screen also lets you edit widgets by clicking the corresponding Edit button (). For most widgets, you can change only the title and label. However, you can change a few widgets' properties. For example, you can enter or update properties of the Brightcove video widget.

    After you click the button, you see new widgets on this screen and other Workarea screens that let you select widgets. Conversely, clicking this button removes any widgets that you delete from the siteroot/widgets folder.

Creating a Group Personalization Page

A community group personalization page is similar to an individual page. It lets group members customize a page’s content by placing widgets.

To create a community group personalization page, follow the instructions in Creating an Individual Personalization Page, with the following differences.

• When creating a widget space, check the Group Space radio button.
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• When a developer creates an .aspx page and drops a personalization control, the selected widget space must be one whose Group Space box is checked.
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• A private tab is visible only to group members.
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