Wow! This is pretty huge - thanks Steve!

I just tried this with Google Docs forms, and it works great - this opens up a whole new area of integration - Thanks!

Great idea, but seems to have had some unforeseen effects on the note activity box:

1. takes a lot longer to load
2. does not close when click off it (have to close and reopen project blogs and bring up the project again… it does save however)

Thanks

BrianJAnderson - May 18, 2009 12:23am

Great idea, but seems to have had some unforeseen effects on the note activity box:

1. takes a lot longer to load
2. does not close when click off it (have to close and reopen project blogs and bring up the project again… it does save however)

Thanks

I would say that when you add a flash video / image or any embedded object it will take longer to load than just plain text so that seems pretty foreseen to me.

A few things as I work through linking/embedding google docs and spreadsheets respectively. I’m a new S360 user and have tried to answer these questions in the forum, but didn’t find specific answers to the following:

When embedding a spreadsheet, is there a way to both embed and provide a link to the actual published/shared spreadsheet in google docs, in one step? I realize i can do two activities to embed and then link, but combining this into one step would be great since you could 1) highlight a section of the spreadsheet in the S360 Project Blog, 2) follow the link to edit the spreadsheet in google docs, and then 3) see the changes in the project blog (if embedded spreadsheets update based on edits in google)?

I don’t see a way to embed google documents in order to see a document draft within the project blog. Is that possible, or can i just link to it (i know how to link)?

thanks

SCSstowe - Mar 10, 2010 01:08pm

A few things as I work through linking/embedding google docs and spreadsheets respectively. I’m a new S360 user and have tried to answer these questions in the forum, but didn’t find specific answers to the following:

When embedding a spreadsheet, is there a way to both embed and provide a link to the actual published/shared spreadsheet in google docs, in one step? I realize i can do two activities to embed and then link, but combining this into one step would be great since you could 1) highlight a section of the spreadsheet in the S360 Project Blog, 2) follow the link to edit the spreadsheet in google docs, and then 3) see the changes in the project blog (if embedded spreadsheets update based on edits in google)?

I don’t see a way to embed google documents in order to see a document draft within the project blog. Is that possible, or can i just link to it (i know how to link)?

thanks

Currently I don’t think there is a way to do both at the same time, as you mentioned you could add a Google Doc link above/below the embedded document.

Regarding draft, do you mean to embed the actual spreadsheet into the page as the above image demonstrates, or?

BTW This is an evolving area, most certainly we will be adding additional features in the future to optimize the integration of Google Docs.

That helps clarify, thanks.

RE: ‘draft’ i was referring to embedding a google doc, not a spreadsheet. I only know how to embed a spreadsheet and link to a doc. I think the ability to see the doc would be useful, similar to a thumbnail view, allowing for quicker browsing to find the appropriate document.

RE: embedded spreadsheets… do changes to the source spreadsheet in google docs appear in S360? When treating a project blog as a portal to the other associated work, having a blog-level view into the real-time content of a google spreadsheet. I realize i could highlight and repost from google into S360, but automation would be fool-proof.

Real life example: my audit team develops laboratory sample plans for clients’ products and plans to use a published project blog to, in part, communicate the status of what is to be tested, sourced from which client location, destined for which lab, and on what schedule. These sample plans are an ever-evolving thing, managed via spreadsheets. Having the latest summary of a sample plan’s status in the project blog would enable clients and the audit team to remain on the same page at all times.

This looks very cool, but at the risk of appearing stupid, I can’t read the code.  Is this feature only for special people or is it for the rest of us?  Help.  I can paste web links, I even figured how to paste the google docs html code when I published the doc to the web, but can Norada offer a guide for the rest of us?  What am I missing?

Kevin Drexel - Mar 11, 2010 09:21pm

This looks very cool, but at the risk of appearing stupid, I can’t read the code.  Is this feature only for special people or is it for the rest of us?  Help.  I can paste web links, I even figured how to paste the google docs html code when I published the doc to the web, but can Norada offer a guide for the rest of us?  What am I missing?

Embedding pages like this is not something most folks would feel comfortable with, nor would we expect them to.  It requires familiarity with technical concepts related to HTML.

As Google expands the functionality of their services we do plan to provide seamless ways to integrated Google Docs directly into the pages (this area is evolving quickly).

Does anyone else have the problem that when embedding a youtube video into a formatted note, say in a project blog, that sometimes it won’t play when clicked? We keep having this problem where we embed a youtube video for client training, and sometimes, no matter the browser, the video won’t play or even take you to youtube when you click on the “watch on youtube” link.

Anyone else see this?

I embedded a flash htlm widget. It was a shared folder view generated by the Box.net. Like Ryan I’s situation, mouse click response is not consistent. It works one out of, say, 10 clicks. My guess is there is some sort of mouse-click contention going on between Solve360, browser and the flash. Other than that, this embedding thing is a blessing to say the least. While I am at it, can Norada come up with a file manager as an activity, standalone or as an embedded kind within the formated text activity (w/ an option of specifying which folder to be the root folder in the file manager ‘activity’)? Technically inclined persons can come up with a solution and share with us.

Update: Firefox does not have the click problem. Ones that had the trouble were Chrome and Explorer. Ryan just posted the similar findings.

We tried the following and it worked in Firefox, Chrome and IE:

Are you using something similar / different?

Well, what we’re doing is just copying everything in the “embed” tab from youtube.com. The code posted above still didn’t work, however, youtube has a new feature that you can check that puts everything in an iframe. That seems to be working now in all browsers. The code ends up looking like this:

<iframe title=“YouTube video player” class=“youtube-player” type=“text/html” width=“425” height=“349” src=“http://www.youtube.com/embed/2vAuBIDl4t8?rel=0” frameborder=“0”></iframe>

Thoughts?

All embedded documents should be inside an iFrame (the original example above shows it).

Hi All,

I know this is an old thread but I have just started looking into this capability.

What I would like to know (and I think this is really a Google doc question), is whether there is a way to have the underlying html code for a Google spreadsheet (for example), updated automatically as the spreadsheet is edited?

What I mean is that the Solve HTML is refreshed whenever the source spreadsheet is changed (without having to save/export the source spreadsheet and then copy the code back to Solve).

Tim.