Working with Mashables and Mashups

Mashable information sources are the fundamental sources of information you use to create mashups and Apps. These information sources may be applications, databases or files that belong to your organization or information sources that are publicly accessible.

Presto supports a wide variety of information sources that you can register as mashables. This includes common standards such as web services, web feeds and databases plus many common types of files. See Types of Mashable Information Sources for a summary of Presto’s support and links to more information.

See Registering Mashable Information Sources for links to instructions on how to register these information sources. Some Presto Add-ons also allow you to register mashable information sources. See Working with Presto Mashables and Mashups in Excel for more information.

You can use mashables in mashups to combine, transform or further refine the information you are interested in. See Mashups in Presto Wires and Mashups in EMML for links to more information on creating mashups.

You can also use mashables directly as the source of information for any number of basic Apps or custom Apps. See Working with Apps and Workspaces for links to more information on creating Apps from mashables or mashups.

You can run mashables to play with the information, add or manage views to configure how the information can be formatted, manage configuration for mashables and many other common tasks, See Running Mashables or Mashups and Other Tasks for links to working with mashable information sources.