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Following the directions here: http://vyew.com/s/help/managing-rooms/export/492/publishing-embeding-a-vyewbook/

I verified that my test free account is on v4 and followed those directions to get the meeting ID of a room and embed it in an iframe with this code:

iframe src="http://vyew.com/v4latest/content/vyewmain.php?mid=072935_6311881" style="width:800px; height:600px;”

(wrapped with appropriate less than/greater than signs and a close-tag for the iframe.)

However, all that happens is I get a big grey box, that eventually loads up a ‘Continue to Home’ link—which of course pops up a “not logged in” error if you aren’t logged into Vyew.

The link I put at the top says “Follow these steps to embed an entire Vyew Room into a web page or blog article:” and specifies a v4 API, so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

I’m using a CMS, but I’ve also tested on a plain, unadorned HTML page with nothing else there and it behaves the exact same way.

Is that documentation incorrect/out of date?  Is this not possible anymore?  (I have verified that meeting ID at least 6-7 different times, as well as asking a colleague to double-check for me, since that seemed the easiest thing to mess up but it looks correct.)

yes - i experience the same, using similar browser/application/etc. specs

I have update the article here:
http://vyew.com/s/help/managing-rooms/export/492/publishing-embeding-a-vyewbook/

the new url to use in the iframe is: http://vyew.com/embed.php?mid=NNNN_NNNNN

thanks, tim, but still not accessible

i’ve tried logging into Vyew.com first, then going to my ROOM; or, logging in after accessing the Vyew interface (before entering a room) - no luck .... after logging in to the site, i click the ROOM, and the screen turns gray but never displays the actual room

- please see my 3 minute video for actual effect

http://www.screencast.com/users/Shorefood.org/folders/Jing/media/7dc518ee-286a-4649-81b3-b58d41c8b423

many thanks for any ideas

youre right… wierd, I had just tested it before I posted it. will look into it, sorry.

Its working now, and a fix was put in place so that it wont break next time a new version comes out.

I’m still not sure how this is supposed to work.

I’m using the new code:

But I just get a “Continue to Home” button (and if I click that it asked me to log in—yet I said I wanted anonymous users to be able to have access to this room, like was covered in your directions.)

If I log in with another window first, then I do get “Continue to Home” again, but this time when I click it it goes to my home—and from there I can’t actually enter any of the rooms.  (not to mention, it forced me to log in which won’t work for a shared room—I can’t give everyone the password.)

I’m experiencing the exact same problem here.

I got that gray screen with “continue to home”.
If ever i log in vyew and then go on my website, i can access my home in the iframe but it’s impossible to interract with any room or anything…

Hi guys, sorry for the back and forth. We had recently changed the way the frames worked with regular Vyew rooms (eliminated the main outer frame), to speed up the loading process. This changed a handful of variables for embedding… I think I tracked them all down now and just tested in Chrome, IE and FF…

If you see another problem, please let me know your browser version number.

It works with the line I embedded at the top, thank you!

We are building a site that relies on the iFrame embedding: is this a fully-supported use of Vyew, so we should expect it to continue to work in the future?

It used to be a side project and not fully supported, but as of now, I will promote this feature to fully-supported because I know its important to many of our partners… its only recently we had a lot of problems with it.

This feature will be added to our monitoring so that we’ll be notified if it fails again.

Thanks very much.  We really appreciate it, and Vyew.  I’m sure I’ll be back here if it breaks again :).

Thank you for the speedy responses here too—supporting random internet clients is about the toughest tech job out there, and we appreciate it!