First of all, I would recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of Alfresco, because there are so many upgrades/fixes after 2.1. Following is applicable for 3.2 and I have tested for 3.2 only. I am not sure about 2.1.
Procedure
1) Open <Alfresco_Home>\tomcat\webapps\share\custom\components\dashlets and add css file in Share : my-page.css. 2) Add bunch of files under <Alfresco-Home>\tomcat\webapps\share\custom\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets; a. my-page.get.desc.xml, b. my-page.get.head.ftl, c. my-page.get.html.ftl, and d. my-page.get.properties 3) Check the index of services and then see one added; Since the requirement is to add a user dashlet, the type has to be user-dashlet. http://localhost:8080/share/service/index/family/user-dashlet 4) After that, any user should be able to add the dashlet to the Dashboard. If it is for site dashlet, add as site-dashlet family.
