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Welcome Widget

Create intranet for your employees in minutes. Atollon Lagoon Welcome widget helps you help your employees & other users focus on the most important activities.

Atollon Lagoon Welcome Widget allows you to:

Add any link(s) on the user's dashboard:

  • shortcut to Atollon Lagoon application
  • shortcut to application's function
  • shortcut to any Atollon Lagoon settings
  • link to external URL
  • shortcut to download/open internal document

Add Welcome widget to Dashboard (select for whom)

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  1. Click on (+) button on top of Atollon Lagoon Dashboard
  2. On black arrow (>) option select who's Dashboard is configured (you can select ether My Widgets used for personal needs, Profile Widgets (used for all users having the same profile), Organization Widgets (for users in the same Organization)

In case you need to set-up Dashboard for other user profiles (eg. Sales, Consultants, Programmers, Accountants, Finance, Lawyers, etc.), you need to switch your own user profile in User Settings (Setting > Users > edit). Afterwards you will be able to amend any other User Profile.

Add Welcome widget to Dashboard

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Drag & drop the Welcome widget on the empty space

You can add several Welcome widgets on any of the dashboard panels.

After adding the Welcome widget, close the editation of widgets by pressing (+) button again.

Edit Welcome widget contents

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  1. Click on Settings button in the widget header.
  2. Change the widget title

The widget is now in EDIT mode. You can add it's components (rows) - links, shortcuts, etc.

Add shortcut to Atollon Lagoon application

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You can simply Drag & Drop any application to Dashboard & place on top of the Welcome widget to create shortcut to the application.

After you place the application shorcut on Welcome widget, you can rename it and add some description.

Add shortcut to Atollon Lagoon application's function

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You can Drag & Drop any function from application's drop-down menu and put it on top of the Welcome widget. This will create a shortcut to the function. You need (at least temporarily) add the application on the Application task bar. You can do it in Settings > Application Settings.

Add shortcut to any Atollon Lagoon settings

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You can Drag & Drop any item(s) from Settings onto the Welcome widget. For example Mailbox settings allow users to set-up Auto-reply when unavailable ...

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You can add any number of external links. When copying/adding the links, please make sure you add also http:// or https:// (for secure access) in front of the web page address (URL).

Dynamic URL parameters

If you want to pass some dynamic parameters in url (like username, session etc.), there is a list of keywords, which will be replaced with actual value. Here it goes:

public static const SESSION:String = "${SESSION}";
public static const SERVER:String = "${SERVER}";
public static const ORGANIZATION:String = "${ORGANIZATION}";
public static const USER_ID:String = "${USER_ID}";
public static const USERNAME:String = "${USERNAME}";
public static const WSDL_FOLDER:String = "${WSDL}";
public static const DOMAIN_ROOT:String = "${DOMAIN}";
public static const ENDPOINT:String = "${ENDPOINT}";
public static const BASE_URL:String = "${BASE_URL}";

Example: https://lifehacker.com/?username=${USERNAME} will be translated to https://lifehacker.com/?username=johny@atollon

Atollon URL

It is also possible to use "Atollon URL" - that is LINK you get by copying object that has "Share" button available. For example atollon://finder/openDetail/?id=133457101&type=project may be link to open some project...

Add shortcut to open document

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You can open any folder / project with document(s) and Drag & Drop the document on top of the Dashboard. After adding the shortcut to open document, you may rename it & add description.

Remove item from Welcome widget

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Removing the item is quite simple. Just take one of the items and Drag & Drop it outside the widget -> on desktop of Atollon Lagoon.

After you have done all your edits, you can save them by pressing the Settings button in the widget title again.

Now the widget is in VIEW mode again.