Publishing Widgets to a Widget Pane on an EnterpriseOne Page

Before You Begin

This 45-minute Oracle by Example (OBE) shows how you can publish widgets to EnterpriseOne users by adding them to a Widget Pane on an EnterpriseOne composed page.

Background

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne widgets are an easy, no-code way to gather data and visualize it in graphical formats such as badges, meters, and charts. Because widgets get their input from orchestrations, the data can come from any source that an orchestration can access, including REST APIs from systems that are external to EnterpriseOne. This opens the door for many interesting opportunities to visualize data from EnterpriseOne and non-EnterpriseOne sources side-by-side.

You can easily publish widgets to EnterpriseOne end users by adding them to EnterpriseOne composed pages, specifically a designer pane, and beginning with Tools 9.2.9.4, a Widget Pane. Additionally, badge type widgets behave similarly to One View Watchlists; they appear automatically on the Watchlist (flag) drop-down list on the EnterpriseOne web client, and in the Watchlist Panes.

Scenario

In this OBE, as a composed page designer, you will publish the widgets you created in the previous OBEs to a new Widget Pane on an EnterpriseOne page. Also, as a user, you will enter inputs for the widgets and view the output.

For this scenario you will:

• Create a new EnterpriseOne composed page.
• Create a new Widget Pane for each of the widgets you created in the previous OBE exercises. Some widgets you will add to the page more than once.
• Add widget default inputs as the page designer.
• Change widget inputs as the user.
• View a widget in the full screen mode.

When you complete the steps in this OBE, your EnterpriseOne page with Widget Panes will look similar to this screenshot:

What Do You Need?

To perform the steps in this OBE, you will need:

• Access to a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environment with Release 25, June 2025 (Tools Release 9.2.9.4) or later
• Feature security, UDO action security, and Content security for Widgets (WIDGET)
• Feature security and UDO action security for composite pages (COMPOSITE)
• These seven widgets you completed in the previous OBE exercises: Past Due Orders, Most Ordered Item Quantity, Most Ordered Item Name, POs by Business Unit, Spend Analysis by Business Unit, Temperature Meter, and Detailed Forecast Text Box.

For more information, see these OBEs:

• 01_Creating and Displaying a Badge Widget for Past Due Orders
• 02_Creating and Displaying Badge Widgets for Most Ordered Item
• 03_Creating and Displaying a Pie Chart Widget
• 04_Creating and Displaying a Bar Chart Widget
• 05_Creating and Displaying EnterpriseOne Widgets with External Data

Creating a New EnterpriseOne Composed Page and Adding the First Widget Pane

In the this exercise, you will create a new EnterpriseOne page with a single Widget Pane.

1. Sign in to the EnterpriseOne web client.
2. From the user menu drop-down list, select Manage Content and click Composed Pages.
3. From the Name drop-down list, select (Create) to create a new page.
4. Click the Create New Content icon at the top left of the window.
5. Click Widget to add a Widget Pane to the page.
6. On the Create Link to Widget window, in the Name field, enter Past Due Orders.
   Note: Since each Widget Pane can only contain one widget, it is most common to name the Widget Pane after the widget.
7. Click OK. The Widget menu enables you to select the widget for this pane.
8.  From the Widget drop-down list, select #Past Due Orders (Past Due Orders P43261) – Badge – Numeric.
   

   

   Note: You can type in the drop-down field to filter the widget names.
9. Click Save at the top right of the window to save the page.
10. On the Enter New Name window, enter Widget Panes.
11. Click Close to close the page designer.
    The new EnterpriseOne page appears with the single Widget Pane. Because the Past Due Orders widget is a badge, it appears in the center of the pane, and the pane occupies the entire page area as shown in the following screenshot:
    

    

    Because EnterpriseOne composed pages can contain many types of content, such as designer panes, One View reports, EnterpriseOne applications, and so on, you could continue to design a more complex page with other components. In the following exercises you will continue to add panes for your other widgets.

Adding Widget Panes to the EnterpriseOne Page

In the previous exercise, you created a new EnterpriseOne page with a single Widget Pane. In this exercise you will add panes for your other widgets.

1. Make sure that you are viewing your new Widget Panes page.
2. From the user menu drop-down list, select Manage Content and click Composed Pages.
   The EnterpriseOne composed page opens in design mode.
3. Click the Create New Content icon at the top of the page.
4. Click the Widget and drag it to the right of the existing Widget Pane, then drop it.



5. On the Create Link to Widget window, in the Name field, enter Most Ordered Item Quantity.
6. Click OK.
7. The Widget menu enables you to select the widget for this pane. Select #Most Ordered Quantity (Most Ordered Item Quantity) – Badge – Numeric.
8. Click Save at the top right of the window to save the page.
9. Click Close to close the page designer.
   Now your page has two Widget Panes as shown in the following screenshot:



10. Repeat steps 2 through 8 to add the Most Ordered Item Name and POs by Business Unit widgets to the page. The Widgets should look as shown in the following screenshot. You can adjust the alignment of the Widget Panes as necessary.
    

    

    Note: When you are in design mode for the page, you can drag the horizontal and vertical bars around the panes to align and resize them.

Adding Widgets with Default Inputs

In the previous exercises, you added Widget Panes for widgets that did not require any inputs. In this exercise, you will add widgets that require inputs and the widgets enable you to provide default values for those inputs.

1. Access the design mode for your EnterpriseOne page (user menu -> Manage Content -> Composed Pages).
2. Click the Create New Content icon at the top left of the page.
3. Click the Widget and drag it to the bottom center of the page, then drop.
4. On the Create Link to Widget window, in the Name field, enter Spend Analysis by Business Unit for Company 00200.
5. Click OK.
6. On the Widget menu, select #Spend Analysis by Business Unit (Spend Analysis by Business Unit) - Chart.
   This widget accepts an input value for the Company. As the page designer, the Widget Configuration window enables you to provide a default value for that input for the users who will see the widget on the page.
7. In the Value field, enter 00200.
   You can add the same widget on a Widget Pane multiple times and set different inputs. For example, you could build a page with widgets for “Spend Analysis for Company 00200” and “Spend Analysis for Company 00300.”
8. The Widget Configuration window provides an option for you to override the title. Enable the Override Title option and change the value in the Title field to Spend Analysis by Business Unit - Company 00200. The Widget Configuration window also provides an option to Allow Input, enabling the users to provide a different input for the widget. For this, step leave this option disabled. You will enable the Allow Input option in a subsequent step.
9. Repeat steps 2 through 8 to add a second Widget Pane for the Spend Analysis by Business Unit widget.
   This time, in the Input field, enter 00001 and in the Title field, enter, Spend Analysis by Business Unit – Company 00001.
Note: The data in your system may be different. You can use any Company with valid data.
10. Click Save.
11. Click Save at the top of the window to save the page.
12. Click Close to close the page designer. Your EnterpriseOne page with Widget Panes now looks similar to this: