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AppDB Gadget Editor

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AppDB Gadgets

A featured web gadget is offered to the communities, Virtual Organizations, NGIs, institutions or even individual scientist, which provides data visualization for the AppDB web API result sets, paging capabilities and user defined search operations. The gadget is constructed in such a way, as to provide high usability to external web portals and can be configured to display specific information from the applications database, without any change to the structure of the host site.

AppDB Gadget Editor Help

The AppDB Gadget Editor is an online configuration tool for the Applications Database embeddable Web-Gadget.

Basic parameters

The settings that are available under this section is only for display purposes.

  • Display type: Select the Gadget layout that fit to your needs.
  • Display search: Select whether you would like make the embedded search facility available though your AppDB Gadget instance.
  • Dimensions (W x H): The dimensions of your AppDB Gadget instance
  • Title: The title that will be displayed into the generated AppDB Gadget instance.
  • Items per page: The number of the applications that will be dispalyed per AppDB Gadget page.


Filtering criteria

The "filtering criteria" facility is used to fetch and display only a subset of the applications contained into the AppSB service.

NOTE: The fetched applications will satisfy ALL the criteria that are set by the user.

  • If, for example, the VO value is set to "SEE" and the Abstract value is set to "meteo", then all the applications which are associated with the "SEE" VO AND have the phrase "meteo" within their abstract text, will be included into the generated AppDB Gadget instance.


The available filters are:

Filter Description
Name: Limit the fetched applications to those that their name contains or matches to the string provided by this filter.
Description: Limit the fetched applications to those that contains into their description field, the string that is provided by this filter.
Abstract: Limit the fetched applications to those that contains into their abstract field, the string that is provided by this filter.
VO: Limit the fetched applications to those that are associated with the selected Virtual Organization (VO).
Country: Limit the fetched applications to those that are associated with the selected Country.
Region: Limit the fetched applications to those that are associated with the selected Region.
Discipline: Limit the fetched applications to those that are related with the selected Discipline.
Subdiscipline: Limit the fetched applications to those that are related with the selected Sub-discipline.
Middleware: Limit the fetched applications to those that are associated with the selected Middleware.


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