Overview

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This article describes the News gadget on the Homepage and explains how to update the gadget title and conditions.

Description

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A gadget is a Homepage item used to show the knowledge search field and notes, for example, pulling up information from knowledge table.

The gadget's title and conditions are defined in the sys_widget table in the Gadget record. To access the Gadget record:

1. Navigate to System UI > Widgets.

2. Open the widget record (https://<instance-name>.service-now.com/sys_widgets.do?sys_id=a066bb690a0a0aa300d40d0cce7ed94f).

The render_gadget_nets UI page defines what is displayed in the gadget/widget (https://<instance-name>.service-now.com/sys_ui_page.do?sys_id=225c69940a0a0b57008029aaea037e49).

Examples

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This section describes how to make some typical changes to gadgets.

• To change the title of the gadget that the user selects when adding content on the Homepage:

  1. Navigate to System UI > Widgets.

  2. Open the Gadget record (https://<instance-name>.service-now.com/sys_widgets.do?sys_id=a066bb690a0a0aa300d40d0cce7ed94f)

  3. In line 4, change:
     News' : { 'type' : 'news' },
     to:
     'NEWS TEST' : { 'type' : 'news' },

  4. Add the widget again.

• In the News gadget, to pull articles with Category= News not Topic=News:

  1. Navigate to System UI > Widgets.

  2. Open the Gadget record (https://<instance-name>.service-now.com/sys_widgets.do?sys_id=a066bb690a0a0aa300d40d0cce7ed94f)

  3. In line 29, change:
     return 'kb_knowledge_list.do?sysparm_query=topic=News';
     to:
     return 'kb_knowledge_list.do?sysparm_query=category=News';

Additional Information

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• Community discussion topic News scroll widget, the records which scroll is in blue color. how to make them in red? (requires login)

• Product documentation topic Create a widget that displays a ServiceNow UI page