Google Calendar + Forms

[jlmcnamara]

I would like to embed both my Google Calendar and Google Forms just as I embed my Youtube Videos. However, I get an error message every attempt. Is this function not possible? If not, what am I doing wrong? Other than that, I love your product.

[jlmcnamara]

Would like to embed AddThis in my pages and blog posts.

[Steve]

For the calendar and forms you probably can use the iframe block to add these. As for "addThis" we will probably be adding something like this in the future.

[jlmcnamara]

I regret to say when I try to embed the Calendar and the Form I get "The embed code you added is invalid. Try a different code or cancel to remove this block."

[pedrosaenz]

I tried to do this earlier too and I got the same error.

[pedrosaenz]

Google calendar has been added properly to iFrame.

[glennbroadway]

I managed to get a GCal working perfectly. I explained my steps in this posts:
http://forums.snappages.com/showpost.php?p=1645&postcount=7

I imagine a Google form would be very similar - have a try and if you are still stuck I'll see if I can help.

Asfar as AddThis goes, there's another thread discussing how allowing custom HTML would help some users. This is a case in point, as at the moment you can't add the Script needed. If I had to hack it in right now I think I would explore hosting a simple page somewhere with nothing but the JavaScript on it and then including this in my Snappages page in a small, invisible iFrame webblock.

Steve, perhaps you could say if this would work?

[Steve]

A solution like that might work for some other widgets but I'm not sure if it would for one like "addthis" because I think it uses the url of the page it lives on to share the links. In the case of an iframe it's url would be different from the actual page.

[glennbroadway]

Very good point. I hadn't thought of that.

Whilst we're talking about this then how about a JavaScript Web Block? Again, I know it would open up pages to being royally 'broken' by wayward users, but it would allow 'power' users to extend the functionality of their Snappages sites.

[jimgui]

I embedded a survey form (http://www.risingstaralpacas.com/Get%20Started.htm) from Google docs with a slight modification. I used the iframe block and removed the iframe tags supplied with the Google form embed code. Nice thing is you can then configure Google to auto-notify you when there are responses and they are all stored in a spreadsheet. It would be great to allow nice formatted tables based on data in a google spreadsheet as a widget. Then site authors could create a table in a google spreadsheet and publish dynamic content on their site without having to create a database, etc.