Embedding views into other pages

It is not difficult to embed a Multisite view into another web application. Since Multisite makes use of frames, the actual view in the right frame has its own URL - independent of the sidebar. So just browse to the view in question and copy the URL of the view frame.

When you want to embed such a view into another application (or for example want to create a dash board constructed out of multiple Multisite views) then you'll soon want to customize the appearance of the view - e.g. by removing the header, footer, buttons or whatever.

As of version 1.1.9i3 this is now possible by passing the HTML variable display_options along with the URL of the view. Just append a &display_options=.... to the URL.

The value of display_options is a list of characters. Lower case characters turn off a class of output, upper case letters turn them on.

Unspecified option defaults are calculated as follows:

• If all given display_options are upper case, assume all not given values default to lower-case
• Vice versa when all display_options are lower case. All not given values default to upper-case
• When the display_options are mixed case assume all unset options to be upper-case

Here is the table of available display options:

So if you want to display the context buttons and internal and external links - for example - append a &display_options=bix to the URL. If you want just the plain data table to be displayed but keep internal links in function, append a &display_options=I.