Embedding a Google document via the onebox gem seems to be broken. All that displays is a blank placeholder. When trying new posts, I get the following error in the console: Load denied by X-Frame-Options: (Google Doc URL) does not permit cross-origin framing. I’ll paste the URL of a sample docu…

Michael, are you sure you published the Google Doc you are trying to onebox? Google Doc needs to be published (not shared) for embedding. More info here . In my testing the published Google Doc is getting embedded. Discourse Onebox Discourse Onebox Embed testing! …

I agree with this @techAPJ [image] alehandrof: An attractive link is sufficient. It’s a spreadsheet, after all. I’m not going to try and view it in a tiny window. Can you add that to your list? Embedding a full Google spreadsheet, doc, etc is kind of insane when you think about it…

[image] codinghorror: Can you add that to your list? Embedding a full Google spreadsheet, doc, etc is kind of insane when you think about it… Yeah, if anything it should be optional, opt-in. I would hold off for 1.7 though and just have it use the generic default onebox support (after mini on…

[image] alehandrof: An attractive link is sufficient. Okay, this is now done. Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FdgO2IrP99W4KtE2ImtEVE-qMHNFai5MyeKxZFv04oc/edit?usp=sharing Document: Discourse Onebox Discourse Onebox Embed testing! Form: …

When the doc is not public, the title and contents can’t be pulled in by the onebox, so the click target is a lot less obvious. Here’s a screenshot of an example: [image] Perhaps that “title” should be rendered in bold blue text as “Google Sheets” or “Google Docs” or “Google Slides” when the tit…

[image] mcwumbly: Perhaps that “title” should be rendered in bold blue text as “Google Sheets” or “Google Docs” or “Google Slides” when the title content can’t be retrieved? Yes, good point! I’ll make it so.

While you’re at it, would it be possible to make the large icon clickable as well?

Maybe private docs could also use the text field to have a note about that status? E.g. just put “Document is private” there.

[image] mcwumbly: Perhaps that “title” should be rendered in bold blue text as “Google Sheets” or “Google Docs” or “Google Slides” when the title content can’t be retrieved? [image] mcwumbly: would it be possible to make the large icon clickable as well? [image] erlend_sh: Maybe pr…

This is perfect, except for a minor quibble: This works: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/gibberish/edit But this doesn’t: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/gibberish Both are valid URLs as far as Google Docs is concerned.

Sure @techapj can you have a look at that?

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) August 11, 2016, 3:05pm 22

Done!

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