Widget Discovery

Widget Explorer

QEDWiki provides an rich Widget Explorer to allow you to search for Widgets and Feeds within the local QEDWiki instance as well as on remote installations of QEDWiki or on other Widget/Feed catalog servers such as Mashup Hub.

The QEDWiki framework has embraced OpenSearch as the basis for a search protocol.

Browser Integration

QEDWiki leverages the Mozilla Firefox extension to plugging into the Browser Search Bar. If you browser to a QEDWiki installation using Firefox you can experience the  Discovery, Testing and Downloading(Exporting) of Widgets using OpenSearch.

• Adjacent to your Browser URL Entry field you will find your Search Engine Selection field
• Click on the Search Selector dropdown
• Click on one of the “Add QEDWiki Search” entries
• Now Click on the Search Selector dropdown again
• Select one of your QEDWiki Search servers
• Enter a search word in the search box
• This will display a list of  Widgets installed on the QEDWiki Server that meet teh search criteria
  
• Now click on one of the Running Man icons to test a Widget
• If you click on a Widget name, you will be prompted to download the QEDWiki Package (Zip) containing the Widget. This package file can then be Imported (installed) into your local copy of QEDWiki..