Widget configuration and personalization

You can customize a widget by configuring it or personalizing it.

You can customize a widget in the following ways:

There is a hierarchy to customization. The changes that you make when personalizing a widget override any changes that an editor has made when configuring it. For example, you edit the settings for a widget that refreshes its content every 60 seconds. If you then personalize the widget to refresh every 30 seconds, the widget refreshes every 30 seconds for you.

Diagram showing the refresh attribute configured to 60 seconds when editing the widget settings and with the widget personalized to 30 seconds with the result that the widget refreshes every 30 seconds.

The values you set when personalizing a widget continue to override the widget settings even when an editor subsequently changes the widget settings. That is, the widget continues to refresh every 30 seconds even if an editor changes the widget to refresh every 40 seconds. The widget might provide a Reset button to cancel your personalizations and return the settings to the values set when an editor last configured the widget.

Restriction: The number of personalizations you can have is limited. When you reach this limit, the oldest personalized setting is replaced with the most recent one.