02 March 2014, 7:26

Hi all,

I have been trying to get wikipedia articles embedded in Mahara. It works well for WikiEducator but doesn't display the article for Wikipedia. I found that in the list of allowed objects Wikipedia can only be displayed with the embed code and not with the URL, same with some other objects - see screenshot.

As there is no embedcode for wikipedia, it doesn't seem to be possible then?

Does anyone have a clue?

Thanks

Sigi

02 March 2014, 8:36

Hi Sigi:

Sorry, I don't see the screenshot, but have a look at iframe generator in the the Mahara Manual Tips and Tricks:

http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.8/tips/openbadges.html#generate-an-iframe-for-your-badge-collection

It should make some kind of adjustable frame for your wikipedia page. Not perfect, but good enough?

04 March 2014, 1:04

Hi Don,

yes, this is the solution indeed and it works! Kristina had told me about the iFrame generator some time ago but I had completely forgotten .... old age... ;-)

Thanks all for the prompt answers!

Best regards

Sigi

02 March 2014, 10:19

Hi,

There are a number of external sites from which embedded iframe code is trusted. To add a new trusted site you need to go to the admin section -> Extensions -> allowed iframe sources and add the new site there.

http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.8/administration/extensions.html#allowed-iframe-sources

This should allow you to use the External Media block to embed the wikipedia iframe code.

http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.8/blocks/external.html?highlight=iframe#external-media.

Cheers

Robert

02 March 2014, 23:26

Hi Sigi

I know it doesnt help in this particular case but there is a growing list of Allowed iframe sources listed here:

https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Allowed_iframe_sources#Added_by_community_members

Please feel free to contribute

Gideon

04 March 2014, 1:05

thank you Robert, I knew this list but what I needed was not included ...  managed to do this before but not all sites do have an iFrame code only URL ..

28 February 2020, 1:57

Hello,

I've been trying to add two new iframe sources, without success. I've added the URL as explained:

and the source has been included in the list, with his icon:

but any of them is showed when the page is displayed. It only appears when I come back from code editor to visual editor.

Am I doing something wrong? Neither of them is on this list.

Many thanks in advance,

28 February 2020, 7:48

Hi Ramón,

Without seeing the value for "URL or embed code" from the block's configuration setting it is hard to work out what is going wrong.

However, when I went to the URL of the page where it contains the item you were trying to embed (and from view source of the page you linked) I got the URL of the item. I then tried setting it up as an embedly link like so:

<a class="embedly-card" href="https://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/plan-docente-online-2-c7a856833cb2de6ef99c4d517248caa5"></a>

And put that in for the value for "URL or embed code" for the block.

I can now see the item both in edit and display mode on my local instance (Mahara version 19.10)

Hope that helps

Robert

28 February 2020, 23:11

I'm very sorry, Robert, because I was not doing the tests in the site where I was changing the allowed iframe source settings. Here is a link to the page where both Genially and Mindomo iframes are displayed. Besides this, I was using the code view of the editor to insert my iframes code, up to now, for me, the "External media" block was sort of the youTube block..

So, as a recap: 1) both new iframes sources are allowed and working in the test site, 2) External media block will be more user friendly than the code view of a text block editor. 3) Even without allowing a new source, an iframe could me embed using the embedly trick. Here is yesterday's page, which is in production site, where any new source has been allowed. It makes a little messy in edition view, with my iframe overlapping next row of blocks, but works fine when page is diplayed.  It didn't work for Genially (<a class="embedly-card" href="https://view.genial.ly/5cc382287f316b0f70d92a9f"></a>).

Still I don't manage very well how to give an iframe a 100% width, because it gets a very small height. That would be next step. Many thanks for your help.

Cheers,

24 April 2020, 2:22

I'm sorry to come back with an iframe and embedding issue, but I'm not able to enable Twitter accounts embedding.

I have added 2 twitter domains to allowed iframe sources (see attached image) and I'm trying to embed a timeline

<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/ramonovelar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by ramonovelar</a> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

but it doesn't work, as you can see in this public page:

https://178.128.247.245/mahara/view/view.php?id=11

Many thanks in advance,