Hy David,

So here's my descripted class. It might help.
Due to this display, you can write me, and I gonna mail you this class.

//Provide is the name of your Widget
dojo.provide("com.siemens.bt.jazz.absence.viewlet.web.AbsencesViewlet");

//Requirements
dojo.require("com.ibm.team.dashboard.web.ui.Viewlet"); //This one is the superclass of RTC Widgets
dojo.require("my.OtherClass")

//This is standard
(function() {

    //Make these strings global avayable //Its easyer to instantiate Objects this way
    var Viewlet = com.ibm.team.dashboard.web.ui.Viewlet;
    var OtherClass = my.OtherClass
   
    //Again the name of your widget in the declare
    //"Viewlet" leads to superclass
    dojo.declare("com.siemens.bt.jazz.absence.viewlet.web.AbsencesViewlet", Viewlet, {
       
        //Here's the path to your template //Mostly my templates are a simple <div><div> //I fill it always with JS
        templatePath: dojo.moduleUrl("com.siemens.bt.jazz.absence.viewlet.web", "templates/AbsencesViewlet.html"),
       

        //This Method is the first which is fired
        //But just ONE time! The first time ;)
        init: function() {
            console.log("Init absence widget");
        },
       
        //This is the second Method it fires automaticaly
        //If you use page-refresh this method is fired
        refresh: function() {
            console.log("Refresh absence widget");
        },
         
        //This fires when you maximize or minimize your widget
        update: function() {
            console.log("update absence widget");
        },
       
        //This Method isn't default, but If you wanna work with UUID it's pretty usefull
        _isValidUUID: function(value) {
            // See com.ibm.team.repository.common.UUID.validateUUID(char[])
            // e.g. _H9EB5esEEdycivs5PH0c-g
            // A valid UUID must:
            // * Have a fixed length of 23 characters
            // * Start with an underscore character
            // * Contain characters only in the range of the MIME64 encoding
            //   (Not checked for performance reasons)
            if (value &&
                (value.length === 23) &&
                (value.charAt(0) === "_")) {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        },
       
        //VERY VERY Important Method!
        //Here you can track when you made changes in the "settings" Panel
        settingsChanged: function(oldSettings, newSettings) {
            //Check if the new settings are uneven to the old ones
            if (oldSettings.preferences.mySetting != newSettings.preferences.mySetting) {
                //Do what you need to do
            }
        },

           //Fires ONCE when the "settings"-Panel is opened
        //This one is very important if you wanna make some custom settings
        //Then you have to adress it here
           getPreferenceProvider: function(/* string */ preferenceId) {
            if (!this._preferenceProviders)
                this._preferenceProviders = {};
            if (!this._preferenceProviders[preferenceId]) {
                if(preferenceId == "MySpecialSetting"){
                    //Be sure you've made a Preference provider
                    this._preferenceProviders[preferenceId] = new MySpecialSetting({ prefId: preferenceId});
                } else {
                    this._preferenceProviders[preferenceId] = null;
                }
            }
            return this._preferenceProviders[preferenceId];
           },
       
    });
})();