Is it possible to integrate MIRO in XWiki?

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Hi, I’m here again with a new problem :slight_smile:

I want that when a Miro frame/board is inserted in the page, all users who have minimum view right to that page should be able to view the board/frame, zoom in and out, etc. regardless of their access rights in MIRO. Any changes later in the MIRO board should reflect in this XWiki page as well (most likely in real-time).

Is that possible?

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In theory, you should be able to insert pretty much any HTML in a wiki page and only users with view right on that page will have access to it.

As for the MIRO specific side of things, you may not be on the best forum :slight_smile:

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Hello @anegi !!

As Thomas said, this can be achieved through the HTML macro.
I just tried it out, and it works flawlessly, here’s a little video demo: https://i.imgur.com/yyrX4lv.mp4

The instructions are as follows:
In Miro

  • Open the board you want to share
  • Click on the export icon in the top left (to the right of the 3 dots menu)
  • Click on “Embed” (make sure that “Anyone with the link” is set to “viewer”)
  • Click on “Copy code”

In XWiki

  • Go to the page you want to insert the board in
  • Edit the page
  • Add an HTML macro to the page
  • Paste what you copied from Miro into the HTML Macro
  • Save the page

Now every user that visits the page will now be able to look at the Miro Board, pan around, zoom in and out, and see changes live.

(It took more for me to find a way to add the video to the forum reply than it took for me to get Miro to work inside xwiki :sob: )

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Wow! thank you very much @gabrielc and @tmortagne :slight_smile:

That is great help. I’m amazed to see how cool XWiki is! :heart_eyes:

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Hi guys, I got stuck here again. It works on my instance, but does not work on my production server. What could be the reason?

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Helloo!!

It could be some firewall config on the production server. You could check by opening the browser dev tools (right click + inspect), then going to the “Network” tab, and reloading the page.

If you see any blocked requests that are supposed to go to miro.com, or mirostatic.com, then that’s probably the issue, and you’ll have to talk to the production instance administrator to unblock those domains.

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It could also be that you don’t have programming rights on the production instance. Programming rights are necessary to add iframes, scripts and some other HTML elements which are considered “dangerous”.

If this is the root of the issue, you could ask an admin, or someone with programming rights to re-save the page. Granted, it may be a bit annoying to have to do that every time you make a change to the page.

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you are right! Thank you. :folded_hands: This was because of the user rights!

Is there a way for normal users (w/o Programming rights) to be able to integrate Miro boards?

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Unfortunately not, as far as I know. At least not at this time.

However, as a workaround, you could try having a page with just the Miro board (made by someone with programming rights), and using the Include Macro to add it to other pages.

I haven’t personally tried this approach, so I’m not 100% sure if it would work, or if there are rights related limitations with this extension as well.

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