Create a floating widget in employee center portal

[Harsha Pappala]

In Employee center, there is a widget performance indicator which is present in all pages and floats on left hand side, 

is there a possibility to copy this functionality for another custom widget 

[ChrisBurks]

Are you able to be more specific on "functionality"? That widget has a few different functionalities. For example it's a button so it has click functionality. After clicking it, the functionality of a modal is present. The modal has the functionality of collection indicators of data.

If you simply want all of that, the widget can be cloned.

If you're speaking of the fact that it floats on all pages then that is done by adding it within the header of the theme. For example if you have the unmodified Employee Center portal, go to the theme and look at the header widget being used in the theme, "Employee Center Header". At the bottom of the HTML markup there is the line where the a widget is being embedded.

In the server script you can see that the widget is the performance indicator widget.

Embedding this in the header widget allows it to be on every page of your portal.

[Harsha Pappala]

I am trying to trigger a survey for the user regarding the esc usage, want that to be available in every page, want the functionality of floating

Which widget can I use to assign and make the survey available for the user after the click of a button ? 

Does take_assessment survey work that way ? 

[ChrisBurks · Accepted solution]

I don't think that there is a widget to assign the survey. There is a widget that will show that surveys are available that are already assigned for the user.
But it is possible to create the widget that could do that. One way is to replicate what the "Assign Survey" UI action does. Then embed that widget in your Header of the theme applying the position styling so that it appears to float.

[Harsha Pappala]

Will try and assign the survey on click and redirect the user to the my surveys page then