View to show a webpage

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I'm trying to put a viewer into a Board screen to show a webpage based on a URL that is in a cube. 

This works perfectly in the Client (see client view) but is completely blank in the Web (see Web view). 

(I've set it to point at a BBC news story to demonstrate).

Anyone got any ideas why it might not be working?

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  • Björn Reuber
    Björn Reuber Employee, Community Captain
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    Hi,

     

    from a technial point of view Winclient is using an instance of IE to display the Website, in HTML5 it's displayed in an iframe. For iframe there is a certain option (X-Frame) that a creator of an website can decide if his website is allowed to be displayed within an iframe or not (so he can prevent the usage of his page on a different website). And it seems this option is set for BBC news.

     

    regards

    Björn

  • Previous Member
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    edited March 2020

    Hi Bjorn,

     

    Thanks for getting back to me. I think it is an issue with calling a URL from a cube in the brower. 

    I've pasted a picture below of two viewers on the same page. One calls in the URL from a cube, the other typed directly into the viewer in the board client and viewed on the web. It seems the viewer is able to render a webpage in the web view, but not if the url is coming from a cube, which seems odd.

     

    Neil

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