Is Customization of "Browser" and "Search" widget possible?

Question

Hi Team,

We are currently designing Dashboards for one of the clients. The dashboard is a business function specific dashboard. We want to show only that one specific community in browser widget (It shows the whole collibra list of communities and their domains) Please let us know how can this be done.

Also, how can we customize the “search” widget. There are no option available while editing the widget.

Brittany Crews · Answer

I feel that requiring users to learn HTML to customize Collibra is not an acceptable or feasible solution. Standard Collibra administrators do not have this type of technical knowledge, nor should they have to learn HTML coding to administer Collibra. With Collibra making customizations increasingly complex, they are making it so customers are having to purchase coaching hours to get assistance to solve issues that should be standard functionality.

jigyasayadav · Answer

Thank you Ann for your detailed response, this helps a lot.

Ann Wuyts · Answer

There is currently no way to customize the ‘Browser’ widget to only display a subset of communities. Personally, I believe there is little added value to adding it to the dashboard, as it is available from the ‘Browse’ menu item top left. What we do see that a lot of customers do, is add a select amount of the most relevant links/domains/communities for that business unit.

For the search widget, while you can’t customize it, you can use the ‘iframe widget’ from Marketplace or the Reporting widget to load a .html file that you host. That way you can create a custom search box that executes a query against a specific search filter.

On default the search box will look like this:

You can easily modify this, or decide to not show the text.

To create your search box:

Create the search filter you want the search to execute against (make sure it is shared with the appropriate users)
Copy the filter ID
Rename the attached file to .html, open it, and adjust the filter ID and instance URL in the JavaScript (if you’re on a version before 5.6, you’ll also need to replace id= by f=). This is also the point where you could modify the text above the search form, or remove it completely.
Install the ‘iframe widget’ as per instructions, or use the reporting widget
Host the .html file on your server (for example, in the customizations folder)
Go to the dashboard where you want to show the search box, and go into edit mode.
Add the ‘Embedded webpage’ widget
Add the URL of where you hosted the file.
Save the widget.

ddk_searchform_customfilter_dgc56.txt (2.8 KB)

1	Grant Rollerson SUNCORP CORPORATE SERVICES PTY LTD
2	Tom Friesen Algonquin College
3	SB S Benson Plus3 IT
4	S stefan_busch
5	Brian Lloyd USA TODAY Co.
6	D daverichard