Can a maslet only use one service as input?

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 18:55
cag
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I am going through the documentation and it states

Mashlet Maker
Mashlet Maker is the composer to create mashlets for mashups and services. It is accessible from Service Explorer, Wires and the Mashup Server Home page. This composer allows you to create and publish basic mashlets based on a single service or mashup and the built-in views in Presto, such as this
 
On the surface this seems limiting as I would think there are times when you might want to show a graph or matrix based on data from more than one source.
 
I will eventully figure this out but would appreciate if someone could verify this and let me know if there is a work around for this so that in practice it is not really in issue.
 
Thanks,
  Carl
 
 
 
 

 

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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 19:06
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Hi Carl,

The MashletMaker provides a quick way to go from a Service to a Widget. I agree that it is limited in what it can do.

There are a couple of ways to solve the issue you are raising:

1) Combine the data from multiple sources into a Mashup using EMML/Wires and then create the Mashlet.

2) Use the Mashlet API to create a custom mashlet

Kishore

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 19:22
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Thanks Kishore - the ability to combine sources in a mashup and then use this single mashup as a source is more than adequate - in fact a rather elequent solution.