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]

You are welcome. I'm glad I can help.

Hopefully this can clear some things up.

Type ID is a universal id of the metric type. It can be used for any user. What it will do is get the earliest instance of that type and pass to the widget.

The "View Survey URL" related link uses this sys_id

However, the widget can also take the instance sys_id which is the actual sys_id of the instance for a specific person that is assigned to the survey.

Thus you can use either sys_id. But it has to be passed with the proper object property type_id or instance_id, respectively.

And you can see in the following image my setup is just like yours where I'm hard coding the sys_id except using the type_id. (note: the icon doesn't show because i'm not in a portal with the theme)

Here it is as Joe Employee

[Harsha Pappala]

@ChrisBurks 

I have been able to create and assign the survey as well, within the widget

So who ever clicks on the menu item, now gets a survey and it opens for them in widget itself 

Type id and instance id, I got the understanding now. 

We made a mess of this question.  But it is very helpful for me 

Thanks again

[ChrisBurks]

Oh, I see. This sys_id cf6e97d35d371200964f58e4abb23f18 is the metric type so the type_id and not the instance_id. The UI related link in the Survey instance uses the type id

[ChrisBurks]

This sys_id "502a2c44d7211100158ba6859e6103a3" is also a type id.