Use HTML macro and Iframe to insert Office365 document to Confluence page

Toomas Adson

Hi

 

I am trying to bring users Office365 documents to  Confluence.  The business needs to produce Excel and Powerpoint files and Confluence lacks to be alternative to those options. And - business users need to collaboratevely edit documents. Standard Attachmet macro is not good enought for users, so  I resort using cloud services. 

 

So I did tried to use HTML macro with Iframe and could make it work with Google Docs - Example below
"iframe title="Example title" width="1840" height="541.25" src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/specific link/edit?usp=sharing" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>"  

 

I cant make it work with Office365 files, I am getting the error - host  --..  refused to connect.

 

Any hints what to check? Anyone has other experience with sharing the Excle/Powerpoint through Confluence?

 

Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @Toomas Adson 

Yeah, Google docs tend to work providing you a) use the iframe macro, b) extract the URL section from the whole embed code. I spent this morning trying to make a G-drive video working in Confluence AND on our Scroll Viewport site rendered from Confluence - none of which is publicly available.

The reason it works is that both Confluence and G-drive are behind the same Okta login.

Google docs have the option to allow sharing within your organization (=company/domain).

I'd explore login/authentication setup and sharing setup on Office 365.

You can also try your luck on the Marketplace - there might be an app that could help.