We have a distributed environment worldwide in many remote locations, as such our notes infrastructure has many design features to utilise the nearest server for users based on where they happen to be working. Our systems also replicate so that remote users can access and use systems on their local server.
This is why Notes was adopted and is part of our core application base.
Now onto the problem, we are moving to 8.5.1 and looking at providing some use of widgets, but from our initial investigations each widget points to a specific server, whilst we could create an extension.xml for each location pointing to the local server this is still not a robust solution. Other thought we hava had so far is to use dns naming and identify the users location from an ip naddress and then resolve the widget url that way.
Is there any way of distributing widgets that follows the notes way of doing things (similar to doclinks, bookmarks etc) or do we go back top management and advise not to use widgets?