widget

Creates an instance of a custom widget. The widget must be defined through a widgetdescriptor tag. Parameters declared within the widgetdescriptor’s config block may be overridden through param tags within a config block.

Syntax

<widget widgetid="widget-id" baseOID="base-oid">

<config>

   <params>

<param/>

<param/>

      . . .

<params/>

</config>

</widget>


 

Attributes

In addition to General Attributes, the following attributes may be specified to the <widget> tag:

Attributes

Values

Restrictions

Description

widgetid

String

Must match the id of a declared widgetdescriptor.

Widget identifier.

baseOID

String

 

Specifies the base OID string for relative parameter access. Relative parameter access within the widget will be prefixed with the value of the baseOID attribute string.

See Also

widgetdescriptor

config

param

Examples

The following example displays a custom widget with id alarmgrid:

<widget widgetid="alarmgrid" top="100" left="100"/>

 

The following example displays a custom widget with id alarmgrid, overriding the value of parameter str2 with the value “New String Value”:

<widget left="100" top="300" widgetid="alarmgrid">

<config>

    <params>

       <param oid="str2" value="New String Value"/>

    </params>

</config>

</widget>