Adding the Telligent component to a page

Making the Telligent widget component available

In Sitecore, you may have to configure a placeholder so that the Telligent component can be used. This method uses the Sitecore Page Editor for this purpose, but there are potential other ways, and you should consult the Sitecore documentation for your version to confirm your approach.

1. Choose the page or item to which you wish to add the component and enter the page editor.
2. Select the placeholder you wish to configure. For example, here we are using the sample item as the basis for our pages. Click the icon to edit the placeholder settings.
   
   
3. If the Telligent widget is not listed as an allowed control, you add it by selecting Edit. If it is allowed, you can skip the rest of this section.
   
   
4. Expand the Renderings tree on the left and select Telligent Evolution > Telligent Evolution Widget by clicking the arrow to move it to the Selected list.
   
   
5. Click OK.
6. Click Save in the placeholder settings window.

Adding and configuring the Telligent widget

1. Choose the page or item you wish to add the component to and enter the page editor.
2. Select the placeholder you wish to add the widget to, and click Add to here.
3. Select the Telligent widget rendering and click Select.
   
   
4. IMPORTANT: You must now save the page in order to configure the Telligent widget.
5. After saving the page, click the Configure button to open the widget configuration.
   
   
6. Select the widget you wish to use. In this example, the Blog - Post List widget is used. The configuration options will load for that widget so you can configure the settings you wish.
   
   
7. In this example, we select a blog to show the posts from. 
   
   
8. When you are done configuring the widget, click Save.
9. You will need to refresh the page for the widget to render.