What are the embeddable widgets?
Our embeddable widgets are a set of easy-to-install, plug-and-play components that you can embed in pages of your website.. They enable you to extend the reach of your community content and enhance your webpages. The in-page widget enables you to display community content directly on any website where your users are. The conversational widget floats above the page, providing help to your customers, right where they need it.Learn more about the embeddable widgets in the release notes or read the frequently asked questions.
Why are we doing this?
We believe that the embeddable widgets are a great set of tools that allows your users to access help content wherever they want, whenever they want. To date we provided two ways of ‘pushing’ helpful content in the embeddable: by default there is a list of topic suggestions which are suggested by running a search query on the page title and matching the most relevant content. Next to that we allow you to 'pin' specific topics to specific pages.The list of automated topic suggestions doesn’t always show the most relevant results and pinning topics manually requires some effort. By introducing search functionality we provide another way to get the right content right where you need it.
We also improved the look and feel of both the embeddables to make the browsing and reading experience more pleasant.
What’s new
We added, updated and improved the following functionalities in this rollout:Conversational widget
- We added a search bar which searches all available content
- We added a link to visit the community in the start screen
- We show the most recent reply directly below the topic. You can load more replies with a single click
- We improved the design of topic lists
- We replaced the avatar in the topic list, which was often a default one, with more meaningful metadata
What’s next
We have tons of ideas on the future of the embeddables; adding personalization to provide better contextual help, pushing relevant content in the embeddable based on a set of query rules, adding (parent) categories so users can browse around. The exact next steps will be revealed later, keep an eye on the roadmap updates for more information.As always, if you have feedback, suggestions or great ideas for the embeddable let us know via the comments below.