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Embedded Webview Page

Purpose: To enable the embedding of custom and third-party web applications.

About

Think of it like a picture frame (an iframe, to be exact) that you can point to any other web app URL, either running on your target device or within your corporate network.

The page and the iframe are automatically adjusted to fit their parent container.

Anatomy

  1. Title and Icon

  2. Embedded iframe


Only Embed Content From Trusted Sources!

Embedding code created by a third party always comes with security risks, which can open doors for attackers. While iframes can now be sandboxed quite effectively, it is still important to ensure that you trust the source of the web application you are about to embed.

Make Sure Embedding Is Allowed

In order to be able to embed a page from another domain or host, you need to ensure that the page has set its Content-Security-Policy to allow embedding using the HTML meta tag or HTTP headers.


Page Properties

General

Title

Will be displayed in the navigation and the page header.

Page Reference

This optional property lets you define unique short code that is human readable and helps to refer to that page without specifying its actual name. This is helpful especially in multilingual environments because

  • It helps your Support-Team to quickly navigate users.
  • It can be picked up by the product manual and documentation.
Example reference in main navigation
Example reference in the page title

Icon

This icon will be displayed in the main navigation, the page header, and inside an embedded navigation of a Page Group.

Navigation

Display this page in navigation

Every page is automatically included in the main navigation. If you do not want this page to be reachable from within the main navigation, uncheck this option. The page will remain accessible and can be opened as an overlay or navigated to directly.

Specific Properties

Webview Content

Target

Same Host
Relative URL without the hostname that points to the same host.

Different Host
Absolute URL that includes the hostname. Use it to navigate to web-apps running on different hosts.