Hey quick question, how does the embed any web page widget differ from the Collibra insights widget that comes out of the box and allows us to reference links?

Both seem to just use an IFrame unless I’m missing something?

We have both in production but we are considering removing the embed any web page widget if the Collibra insights widget achieves the same thing and is covered by support.

Cheers!

Alvin Useree

Hi Alvin, the difference is visible if you log in with a non-admin account, and are editing or creating a dashboard:

The Insights widget will then only allow you to choose from pre-set reports/URLs. It will not allow you to add your own.

The available reports can be configured in Console (https://productresources.collibra.com/docs/reporting/1.4/#Reporting/ta_configure-reports-from-settings.htm):

The ‘Widget to Embed any Web Page in Collibra Dashboard’ available on Marketplace should not appear for non-admins at all. Could you please double-check the latter and let me know? I currently don’t have easy access to in instance with the widget installed.

*Updated: thanks to @dmytro.protsyk for the additional info

I’m on a Cloud instance. Once I download the widget (zip) file, do I install using the import functionality (drag & drop)?

Looking at the documentation, I’m not sure about compatibility but I’ll let someone more informed answer that one.

In terms of the steps to install, I’ve laid them out below

1. Take a customisations backup of your instance which consists of:

• Navigating to your console
• Go to backups
• Create backup with only customisations checked
• Download backup

2. Extract the backup somewhere locally
3. You should see a dgc folder and a metadata.json file, open the dgc folder and create the folder “modules” within it
4. Within the modules folder, add the content in the widget (zip) file (the Iframe folder)
5. Navigate back up to the root (i.e. where you see the dgc folder and metadata.json file)
6. Rezip the directory, upload back to the console and press the restore button

Hopefully that helps!

We are able to embed the “Yammer”, only if we uncheck “Run in sandbox (highly recommended for security)”

Will such action give rise to vulnerability to the instance?

Could someone please confirm any repercussion which may arise due to this?

Hi both,

This widget enables embedding of a webpage through the use of something called an IFrame.

You can use an IFrame tag and set a Sandbox attribute to it. If I were to guess, Sandbox mode likely refers to said attribute.

I’ve attached some documentation that references what the sandbox attribute does below:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_iframe_sandbox.asp

hi
i have tried to embed a n html page using the wizard. But the html page is hidden inside the widget with horizontal scroll bars. I couldnt find any option to specify the length and width for the widget. please find the screenshot. Can you please advise how to set the dimensions for the widget to adjust to the inner html page?

Hi @anie.issac, I am not sure which widget you are using (reporting or text), but this should work for both I believe:

Find the (very very subtle) bottom grey line of the widget, and hover over it. On your screenshot, it is right above the. In the middle there should appear a double-arrow that you can use to resize the height.

thanks Ann… I never noticed that resize option

Hi, I get the message “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.” on the embedded widget if I try embedding an internal website in the DIC in cloud, when "Run in Sandbox"checkbox is enabled).

When the “Run in sandbox” checkbox is disabled, I get the below error message:

Error

Something went wrong. Please try again later.

Please advise.

Test the widget as installed

To test if the widget works, I tested on 2023.11 internally with ‘run in sandbox’ off for these 2 scenarios. For me both worked.

• embedding any page/URL from the same instance works (https://yourinstance.collibra.com/glossary)
• embedding the latest episode** of the Data Download podcast works using the sharing url (https://www.youtube.com/embed/PDB7ZbzMyRE?si=eg4lR1GQiSjeMJnj)

Test the page you want to embed

To test if the page is ‘embeddable’ at all you can use the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>Iframe test page</h1>

<iframe src="https://yoururl.com" title="iframe embed test">
</iframe>

</body>
</html>

1. Use any text editor and paste the code.
2. Replace the yoururl.com with the page you want to test.
3. Save the file with a .html extension (eg. iframetest001.html)
4. Open the file in your preferred browser

If both tests are successful, as @alvin.useree advises, please try the Insights widget next.
Personally I have never encountered that error message. If the site you want to embed does not allow for it, you would get ‘this page is blocked’, or ‘unable to connect’.

**
It’s a really great episode well worth listening to. You can find The data-preneur’s guide to achieving impact on Youtube in case you can not embed it.

Hi, we are also using the embed webpage widget for our own Landing Page including quick links to certain Collibra views and to a sharepoint side.
It is working when we deactivate the sandbox feature, but of course we would like to keep it activated due to security reasons.
Does anyone know how to make the links still work with the activated sandbox feature although they are already opening in a new tab?
example:
https://yourinstance.collibra.com/catalog/reports?view=01be9e08-31b6-4748-8ae5-39090096cbdb"target="_blank">