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Embed a web page in a dashboard by its URL
Show an outside page (a map, an analytics report, a published spreadsheet) inside the dashboard through an HTTPS link.
Before you start · for owners and managersEdit access to the dashboard
Before you start · for owners and managers
Edit access to the dashboard
- You need: Edit access to the dashboard
Steps
1
In Edit layout, press Add widget, choose Embed and press Continue. In Content source, choose URL.
2
In URL, paste a link that starts with https://.
3
Press Continue, then press Add widget.
How it works
The page shows in a frame isolated from Corteksa, with a badge naming the outside site.
The link is checked when you save and every time it’s shown: https only, no username or password inside it, and not from Corteksa’s own domain.
The page itself isn’t checked: every viewer sees it as its site serves it. Some sites block being shown inside a frame.
It doesn’t support viewing details or CSV, and in the PDF, placeholder text shows in its place.
If something goes wrong
What you see
Why
What to do
“Enter a valid URL that starts with https://.”
It isn’t https, it has sign-in details in it, or it’s from Corteksa’s domain.
Use a public link that starts with https.
An empty frame
The site blocks being shown inside a frame.
Use the site’s “publish” or “embed” link.
The widget shows an error to editors and is hidden from viewers
The link is no longer accepted.
Edit the link.
A real example
Shield Security Co.
The situation
A map of client locations on Google Maps.
What they did
- They embedded the published map’s link next to the visits table.
The result
The visits coordinator sees the locations and the table together.
A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.
Good to know
The link can be up to 2,048 characters.
https only.
It doesn’t need the HTML permission; edit access to the dashboard is enough.
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