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Can I hide a widget thumbnail?
You can control whether a widget's thumbnail is visible in the My Widgets sidebar panel.

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For administrators and power users who wish to prevent users from displaying a hidden widget thumbnail in their My Widgets sidebar panel, you can add the following statement to the user's plugin_customization.ini file:

com.ibm.rcp.toolbox/allowUserShowHideWidgets=false

Administrator or power user option

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An administrator or power user can create a widget, export it, and manually add a flag that controls whether the widget is hidden on the My Widgets sidebar panel.

If you install a widget that has been modified in this way, the widget will not be visible on the My Widgets sidebar panel. A Show All option becomes enabled.

The attribute that controls this feature is hideThumbnail and is set in the widget's .XML.

hideThumbnail=true -- Hides the widget thumbnail in the My Widgets sidebar panel

hideThumbnail=false -- (default) Displays the widget thumbnail in the My Widgets sidebar panel

An example is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><webcontextConfiguration version="1.1"><palleteItem hideThumbnail="true" id="Test1" providerId="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning" title="Test1" url="file:///c:/provUpdateSite2/site.xml"> <data> <installManifest><![CDATA[<install><installfeature id="com.ibm.widget.prov.test1.feature" name="my plug-in" version="1.0.0" description="widget for pushing my plugin-in"/><requirements><feature id="com.ibm.widget.prov.test1.feature" match="perfect" version="1.0.0" /> </requirements></install>]]></installManifest></data></palleteItem></webcontextConfiguration>

You can disable display of the client's "Hide" and "Show All" options by adding the com.ibm.rcp.toolbox/allowUserShowHideWidgets preference to the user's plugin_customization.ini file.

com.ibm.rcp.toolbox/allowUserShowHideWidgets=false -- Prevents display of "Hide" and "Show All" options

com.ibm.rcp.toolbox/allowUserShowHideWidgets=true -- (default) Allows display of "Hide" and "Show All" options

End user option

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An end user can hide or display a widget thumbnail as follows:

To hide a widget thumbnail from the My Widgets sidebar panel, right-click the thumbnail and select Hide from the resultant menu.

To display all hidden widget thumbnails, select Show -> Show All from the My Widgets options menu.

Note: If the Hide or Show All options are not visible, your administrator has likely prevented their use.

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