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External widget dashboard extension

The External widget dashboard feature helps you display card content in the dashboard panel based on an external URL request.

Field / Property Type Description
extension.external.widget.dashboard List Each row is a set of values with a tab content declaration; the format is: label;url;height
Label 1;http://localhost:8180/openkm/test.jsp;370
Label 2;http://www.openkm.com;240
The default height of the card in the dashboard is 370 pixels.
When you embed a URL in an iframe that is on a subdomain different from the application’s domain, you must include that domain in the configuration; otherwise, the browser will block it for security reasons. You can find more information about the okm.content.security.policy configuration parameter in the section Experimental configuration parameters
webservices.visible.properties List To make the values of the parameter “extension.external.widget.dashboard” accessible to all users, the parameter name “extension.external.widget.dashboard” must be added to the current list.
If you forget to add the property name, only administrators will be able to retrieve the value, so some extensions may produce errors for regular users.

Create a file named test.jsp and copy it into the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/openkm folder.

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>External URL request example</title>
</head>
<body>
Request parameters
<br />
<br />
<b>uuid:</b><%=request.getParameter("uuid")%><br />
</body>
</html>
  • Show the dashboard panel.