Widgets allow you to present information about your online consultation as small snippets on the side of your project page for easy viewing. They are designed to help your community better understand your projects by providing options to put pictures and videos, provide a link for easy sign up, highlight important links and dates, showcase related projects, answer frequently asked questions etc.
You can integrate any number of these into your projects and there are 14 widgets for you to choose from:
- Document library - Share your key project documents
- Photo Gallery - Use the photo gallery to liven up your consultation
- Videos - Show a video in your consultation
- Follow Project - Encourage participant's to follow your project
- FAQ's - Answer common questions with FAQ's
- Key Dates - Highlight the important dates to be remembered
- Who's Listening - Tell your community 'Who's Listening' to them
- Lifecycle - Outline your project's timeline
- Related Projects - Drive engagement by linking to related projects
- News categories - Use news categories to organise your news feed
- Important Links - Use important links to group useful resources
- Signup Banner - Activate the signup banner
- and Custom Widget
Note - There is also one tool in EHQ which can be used as a widget. You can read more about that in the article on Quick Poll as a widget.
The following steps describe how to Add a New Widget on your EHQ page:
- Click on the projects button on the left and select the respective project.
2. Once on the project page, click on the AddWidgets button on the right.
3. A list of active and available widgets are displayed that can be added to your page. Select the widget you want from the Widgets list on the right. It will be added to the Active Widgets List. For example the Custom widget is added successfully.
4. The widget is now present in the Active Widgets list.
5. You can Edit, Hide or Delete the widget using the options provided.