How to embed a Sample App into the Community

[MultiTech]

If you’ve got a sample app that you wish for people to see/use in the community…

Example: Manual Sorting Sample App

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To accomplish this, simply paste the HTML iFrame code into the community.

• For example: the sample app you see above was made with the following code:

<iframe src="https://www.appsheet.com/start/40976121-2d01-42ee-b9bc-bfa031dc6aef" title="Test" height="600" width="300">
</iframe>

[MultiTech]

Seems to not work for other people though - or through incognito…

• So I guess the solution is… it doesn’t work???

@Arthur_Rallu

[SkrOYC]

MultiTech_Visions:

or through incognito

Yep, weird

[Fabian_Weller]

MultiTech_Visions:

Seems to not work for other people though

What do you mean by that? I can see your sample app in your first post.

[MultiTech]

Fabian:

I can see your sample app in your first post.

Oh really!?

• When I opened this page in an incognito page, the app didn’t load.

Perhaps it’s something with not being logged in.

• Thanks @Fabian for letting me know!

[Kirk_Masden]

This sample app of mine is located at the following URL:

AppSheet

AppSheet : mobile apps from spreadsheets : App templates

Make a custom business app without code. See our library of sample apps, view live demos, copy, and customize your own business app solution now.

Hope it works!

[Kirk_Masden]

Hmmmmmm. I’m not able to see my own app or @MultiTech_Visions ’ app.

[Lynn]

Hi @Kirk_Masden
I can see your sample app when I click on the link you provided.
Should I be able to add anything to the app? I thought I shouldn’t be able to ??

[Kirk_Masden]

Hi @Lynn ! I guess the embedding isn’t working properly. For the time being, it may be better to just share a link instead of trying to embed. On the other hand, if this way of embedding starts to work consistently, that would be cool.

[MultiTech]

@Kirk_Masden

• I can see your sample embedded app, use it, etc.
  • But I can’t upload any changes (as is expected with sample apps)

Kirk_Masden:

I’m not able to see my own app or @MultiTech_Visions ’ app.

- Are you logged in, or trying to view through incognito?

• It seems there’s an aspect of needing to be logged in, or at least not inside incognito.

[Kirk_Masden]

I’m not sure what incognito is but I tried once logged in and once logged out. Add, as I wrote, your app looks the same – visible, in a sense, but stuck in the loading process. I’m away from home in an environment where my internet is quite slow. I wonder if that might not be part of the problem.

I’m not sure what I would need to do with my sample app to allow changes. I’m on a free plan. I wonder if it’s possible to allow more-or-less unlimited use of a sample from a free plan. Currently, the way I share samples / templates, one must copy the app in order to begin changing the data.

It seems that there’s quite a lot to learn about samples / templates and I’m still not where I would like to be. I put together a “tip” on the topic that organizes what I’ve been able to learn so far:

How to share your app as a template / sample app via your portfolio and/or a URL Tips & Tricks 💡

In this post, I’m revisiting topics that have been covered several times in “Tips” and other posts in this community. None of the information in this tip is new but I thought I’d glean the best information from the various posts that have been made so far and put it in one “tip” for easy reference. I’ve appended a set of links to previous posts that I have referred to in putting this together for those who might be interested. There are two ways in which one can share a sample app (now referr…

This “tip” explains how to find the appGuidString (identifying code) that is necessary to make the embedding URL for this tip. But, the settings that I recommend probably don’t allow samples to be edited (that is, for data to be inputted). I may need to add that in a comment once I learn how to do it myself.

[SkrOYC]

Kirk_Masden:

I put together a “tip” on the topic that organizes what I’ve been able to learn so far

I followed your topic to make my first sample app and also I inserted my app on my post doing what @MultiTech_Visions posted here (we talked about this by DM)

Dancing Parrot with l10n Resources

As I promised, here it is Inspired by @MultiTech_Visions, here is an app that interacts with this project to make public url that you can use here in the community Here is the sample app: “Dancing Parrot” I also tried to go an extra mile and added localization support through UserSettings. Go there and change between Spanish and English. I hope this serves as a base if you need to use either of this resources. PS: I wanted to add a view just for desktop (CONTEXT(HOST)="Browser") to make a…

BUT it’s very unreliable

Now I can even see my app from the mobile version of this community… weird