Hi there,

With gadgets and programming in general, your imagination is the limit, so you can pretty much do anything you can think of... :-) The only issue is how easy and how elegant the solution would be.

I would assume your request tracking system is a web application only available on your LAN, not on the Internet. If this is the case, this would prohibit you from implementing your gadget as a regular html type. These gadgets work with remote content by initiating fetch requests originating from Google data centers. The Google servers would most likely not be allowed to reach your request tracking system.

Your best option would be to create a small web application which formats the information you want to display in a gadget size format. You will be able to create a gadget spec to define your url type gadget, which will handle the display of your web app in an iframe on your iGoogle page. You will have to decide if you want to manage the authentification with cookies (issues with browsers other than Firefox - see the solution in the gadget documentation), or with user prefs (problem here is that the data will be stored and transmitted in clear text; do not use this for sensitive information).

Your best starting point would be the online gadget API documentation: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/legacy/dev_guide.html

There is the legacy API, which is what is used in production today, and the new gadgets.* API which offers more functionalities but will be in production for iGoogle in the future.

Once you are started with your project, feel free to ask specific questions here.

I hope this helps, and have fun with your project.

Jerome

On Jun 23, 3:51 am, scheundt <sche...@gmail.com> wrote: