I found a couple of old (nearly 10 years?) topics about Google Sheets previews, or lack thereof. Is there any way to have that work today? Here’s why I’m asking. In our community, we track important information in a Google Sheet. On Facebook, the preview of the linked spreadsheet in the post is ac…

On Google docs desktop, go to file → share, then publish → embed. You can then paste the generated iframe into Discourse. You must add the Google docs domain to the allowed iframe URLs in Discourse admin. The result looks like this: [Screenshot_20251216_234605_Chrome] The window remains small …

Note: the following was merged (thanks @merefield and @darkpixlz ) from another topic I just created… with the exact same question as in December. It fell through the cracks in my brain (ski accident was nearly a year ago folks, but I’m still not back in good working order for some things, clearly – …

(oooh, nasty, good luck with recovery!!! :heart:) did @Canapin ’s suggestion help any?

[image] merefield: did @Canapin ’s suggestion help any? Let’s see, it “kinda works” but the iframe is really tiny :-/ – not really useable as such I’m afraid: [Screenshot 2026-03-07 at 20.48.02] Would there be a way to fix the iframe size?

[image] stephtara: Would there be a way to fix the iframe size? Can you link to this post if possible? I can check CSS classes for you to see if that’s possible..

https://entraide.diabete-felin.com/t/test-de-partage-de-tableau/189?u=stephtara If there’s something to be done with a bit of CSS that’s good news!

If this works, I’m trying to figure how to make it simple for my non-techy members. Would there be a way to define a kind of “user shortcode” where they paste the embed code to their spreadsheet once somewhere (in a custom user field?) and they can just type something like %my_spreadsheet% (or whate…

I did shortly have a look, there is no specific class for docs iframe embeds but I did notice its max width was 100% but not the real width.. setting that to 100% made it wider and height is up to you [image] .post__regular .cooked { iframe { max-width: 100%; max-height: min(1000p…

I would personally add it as a component to the site so that it globally applies to all users

[image] darkpixlz: I would personally add it as a component to the site so that it globally applies to all users yeah just added the CSS to the component I created for these little “community tweaks”, thanks! And now is the question of making it easy for people to insert that iframe in their…

The iframe solution is really quite nice now that it’s the right size, because we can scroll around in the spreadsheet to see the rest of the values without having to open it. And it even works well on mobile! Thanks, that’s really a good part of the problem dealt with.

Google Sheet Preview: is there any way?

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stephtara (Stephanie Booth) March 8, 2026, 7:18am 22

Ooh that is really exciting, the link to each person’s spreadsheet will be in a custom user field, that is planned… thanks a lot!

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