RECOMMENDATION: If you are using a version of The Portal Connector higher than 4.0, we strongly recommend utilizing the MVC based widgets and components to create your site. This documentation is for legacy purposes only and will soon be deprecated.

The Portal Connector 3.3 Client-side API

This section contains documentation related to The Portal Connector 3.3 client-side API. This can be used to enhance existing widget functionality with JavaScript or JQuery. Each widget has a number of accessible methods.

Working with the API

In order to begin working with the API in the first place, you will have to retrieve widgets to work with! You can retrieve a widget with the findControl method. You will have to find the name for the control which is located underneath the ‘Advanced: Name for developers’ collapsible in the widget designer.