Feedback: The Embedder Launched in Preview

[TaylorKrusen]

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.

What features would you like to see? How do your users interact with their Dropbox files from your app? Please post your thoughts or ideas about the Embedder below. Willing to give us more direct feedback? This April, we’re offering a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card for folks that fill out this survey. Completing the survey counts as your entry into the sweepstakes*.

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[kevin g.1]

Hi,

   It would be great to be able to start in grid view when embedding with a tags. Calling the embedder directly isn't playing nicely with hidden tabs.

[Greg-DB]

@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]

@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]

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]

@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.

[Sarut]

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[juhaelee]

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]

@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]

is this active yet?

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

[Greg-DB]

@Bdice Yes, the Dropbox Embedder is available for use and you can find the documentation for it here.