Widgets can display  articles, documents, events and eshop products.

There are 4 ways to configure the content to display in a widget:

1. You can display content from a certain folder:

   a. Use the following folder selections in the widget setup to point to content in a particular folder :
                 Only display items in the folder
                 Include child folders for the above folder

2. You can use taxonomy to determine which content should be displayed.

Select the taxonomies in the taxonomy tree marked "Only show items tagged with the following taxonomies". This section returns all content tagged with your selections and does an "and" between taxonomy levels and an "or" for taxonomy items in the same level.

So, lets say for example that you have configured your widget to show items tagged with the following taxonomies:

Countries
          The Americas
                   South America
                   Central America
                             Panama
                   Caribbean

 What Community Manager will do for the widget is look for any content that has been tagged with:
          Countries
                   and
          The Americas
                   and
          South America or Central America or Caribbean 
                   and
          Panama

3. You can use the taxonomy of the parent article currently displaying to determine which content should be displayed:

Select the taxonomies in the taxonomy tree marked "Inherit the following taxonomies from the parent article". This section returns all content tagged with the same taxonomies that belong to the current article that is displaying. Again, your selection does an "and" between taxonomy levels and an "or" for taxonomy items in the same level.

So if you create a widget that is set to inherit the Countries of the parent article. If you place that widget (using a tag) in a left hand menu article, then for example:

Article A has been tagged with the following taxonmies:  

Countries
          The Americas
                   South America
                   Central America

Article B has been tagged with the following taxonmies:  

Countries
          Australasia
                   Australia
                   New Zealand

When article A displays then the widget will return all content that has been tagged with:
          Countries
                   and
          The Americas
                   and
          South America  or Central America

When article B displays then the widget will return all content that has been tagged with:
          Countries
                   and
          Australasia 
                   and
          Australia or New Zealand

4. You can combine 2 and 3  

You can use a combination of taxonomy selections (2) and parent taxonomies to inherit (3) to create additional and/or options.  

So, using a similar example as above for article A - if on the widget you also specify in the "Only show items tagged with the following taxonomies" section that the widget must return:

  News Articles

When article A displays then the widget will do a join an all the taxonomies and return all content that has been tagged with: 
           Countries
                   and
          The Americas
                   and
          South America or Central America   
                   and
          News Articles