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TaylorKrusen's avatar
TaylorKrusen
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6 years ago

Feedback: The Embedder Launched in Preview

New feature alert! Dropbox is previewing a new pre-built component called the File and Folder Embedder. Simply paste a JavaScript snippet into your code and you’ve added the ability to turn Dropbox shared links into interactive, embedded previews. It’s never been easier to provide your users with the ability to view and interact directly with their Dropbox files and folders. You can read more about the Embedder on our developer blog or the Embedder documentation. 
 
We want your feedback! While in the Preview phase, we’re actively adding enhancements, new controls, and new supported filetypes to the Embedder.
 
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    kevin g.1 Thanks for the note! I'll pass this along as a feature request but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented. 

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    TobiasR pcuadros thefreshlab We've updated the Embedder implementation to better handle these cases and improve the error reporting when needed. Unfortunately, due to some of the new cross-site behaviors in some modern browsers we can't always display the content directly (depending on the user's browsers settings and behaviors), but the Embedder should now work more reliably when dealing with these restrictions, including showing some error messaging and a link to the content when it can't be displayed directly. Please give it a try and let us know if you're still seeing anything not working as expected. Thanks!

  • James_T's avatar
    James_T
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago

    The embedder is a great idea, but I wish it was much more flexible...

     

    1. Make it possible to adjust it's colors etc. to make it integrate better into an existing design.

    2. Make it possible to specify folders/files that should be excluded

    3. The header is wasting too much space. Even in the "small" header, it's a big waste of real estate.

    4. Show how many files are in each folder, or at least show if it's empty.

    5. Be able to specify the text in the header, instead of showing the name of the root folder. E.g the shared folder may be named "Files shared to web". But that makes no sense when shown as the title in the header on a web page. It would make more sense to be able to set the title to be "Browse the files in Project xxx" 

    6. An upload feature would be amazing.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    James_T 1-6. Thanks for all the feedback! I'm sending this along to the team.

    7. I see you opened a new thread for this, so I'll follow up with you there.

  • juhaelee's avatar
    juhaelee
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    With the death of the third party cookie, is there a new solution that is being developed for the Embedder? If my users authenticate with dropbox within the app, can I do something like pass in the their Access Token within the url of the embedder?

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    juhaelee I don't have any updates on the Embedder to share, but I'll pass this along as a feature request for an access token-based option like that. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

  • Bdice's avatar
    Bdice
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    is this active yet?

    I'd like to build a website where people can browse thru a designated folder.

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