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Web Tab in Zoho People

What is Web Tab in Zoho People?

Web Tab in Zoho People allows loading external websites or custom web pages/web apps created using Zoho CLI and JS SDK. It works similarly to the Custom Widgets feature in Zoho People.

Where can Web Tabs be deployed in Zoho People?

  1. As a tab in Home space.
  2. As a tab within any service
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A maximum of 10 web tabs can be listed in Home / Services.

Creating and Using Web Tabs

The hosting type of web tab can be of two types:
Internal: Create and pack a web tab using the Zet-CLI Tool. The .zip file will then be uploaded for internal use within Zoho Servers Learn more.
External: Load an external website by entering the URL here.

Creating an external website-type web tab:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Developer Space > Web Tab > Create New Web Tab
  2. Enter a name and description (description is not mandatory).
  3. Select a position for the web tab.
  4. Select External as the hosting type.
  5. Enter the URL to be loaded within the Base URL textbox.
  6. Configure applicability if required.
  7. Click Submit.


Since Home was selected as the position of the web tab, it can now be accessed by applicable employees from Home > Zylker Home (web tab name)


Creating an internal-type web tab:

  1. Navigate to Settings Developer Space > Web Tab > Create New Web Tab
  2. Enter a name and description (description is not mandatory).
  3. Select a position for the web tab. 
  4. Select Internal as the hosting type.
  5. Use the upload from desktop option to select the webtab.zip file from the "dist" folder of your project to upload it. (Read below topics for creation steps.)
  6. Enter the index page URL of your web app in the provided text box
  7. Configure applicability if required.


The web tab will now display the uploaded web app within the corresponding service selected above.
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Only use a .zip file created using Zet-CLI tool and packed using the the zet pack command. Read below for more details.

Creating a web app to be displayed as web tab in Zoho People using Zet-CLI Tool

To create web apps to be displayed as web tabs, the Zoho Extension Toolkit (ZET) is used. The Zoho Extension Toolkit (ZET) is a command-line interface designed to assist developers in creating and packaging widgets for integration with Zoho People. Read below for instructions.

Instructions

  1. Refer this article for steps on Installing and Using Zet-CLI Tool 
  2. When creating a project, from the list of Zoho Services for which the project template to be created will appear. Here, select Zoho People.

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A default plugin-manifest file will be generated as part of the project template directory. This file is crucial, as it's where the JSON parameters of your extension must be configured before hosting. It contains metadata about the extension. For more information about plugin-manifest file, Click here.
  1. Within the project folder you have created. You can find the HTML file for the web app in the app folder.
  2. The html file contains the structure, design and components of the web app. You can create your web app from the HTML file.
  3. You can enhance the web app using additional designs and functionality through the creation of necessary java script files and stylesheets. (optional)
  4. To use the Zoho People APIs in the widget, you can utilize the API helpers provided in the JS SDK Library.
  5. Once you have developed your widget, from your project folder, open the plugin-manifest.json file with your text editor and specify your web tab's intended location.
Web Tab Position
Location identifiers
Home
people.home
Service
people.service
  1. You can add the domains to be whitlisted to the same plugin-manifest.json file. As this is hosted internally, access will be limited to Zoho People servers, with all other URLs being blocked by default. To grant web app permission to retrieve data from designated sources, whitelist specific URLs.
  2. The .html file inside the packaged zip will be the default index URL. If you've created another folder inside the App folder and moved the html file inside the new folder, then you need to specify the index file path in the following format: 
/<folder-name>/<filename>.html
  1. The .zip file must be packed only using the zet pack command to be considered a valid zip file. Uploading a zip file packed using other means will result in failure.
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