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This page describes the different frontend front end technologies of integrating the Product Guide into your website or applications.  If you don't want to get into the details, just follow our recommendation to use the JavaScript integration.
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Introduction
excentos supports various technologies to integrate the Product Guide into your website or applications.
This overview describes the commonly used default functionalities only; please contact excentos if you want to inquire other ways of integrating the Product Guides as there are far more possibilities.
| integration | advantages | disadvantages | supported by excentos | comments |
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| JavaScript | - very flexible integration
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excentos is 100% responsible for that look and feel is identical to what you saw in the Workbench's preview-- and paste the single-line integration code that
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we provide | there are no "real serious" disadvantages. However, please be aware of the following: |
very rare we encountered - there where conflicts of the website's CSS
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or JavaScript and JavaScript classes. We then had to - (especially if the customer's website assigned styles to HTML identifiers instead of using class names)
- solution: implement a workaround to rename
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our (we thus now use "xc" prefix for all CSS classes so CSS conflicts should really be a very rare case)- or resolve other conflicts
- in very rare cases, there were conflicts of the website's JavaScript with excentos JavaScript.
- solution: excentos will find the conflict and clarify how to solve it
| yes | it is recommended using the JavaScript integration |
| iFrame | There is not a significant advantage over using JavaScript. The |
yes | we recommend you using JavaScript integration | iFrame | We don't really see any significant advantages. From our point of view, the only reason to use iFrame integration would be - 100% safe against CSS and JavaScript collisions (but see comments on JavaScript integration above)
- You are thus 100% sure that the look&feel corresponds to what you see in the Workbench preview (unless the iFrame does not use dynamic height)
| - you or excentos will need to provide an iFrame that dynamically adapts to the size of the Product Guide, also in responsive
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behaviour - behavior (e.g. different height for question cards than for recommendation list)
- the excentos Analytics do not detect the referrer / website that integrated the Product Guide, so it cannot analyze traffic generation within the excentos Analytics. Also for you as our customer, you will be able analyzing the traffic within the webpage that contains the iFrame, but not be able analyzing the traffic within the iFrame
| yes, but may require initial support / customization |
we would advice | excentos advises to only use an iFrame if you encountered CSS / JavaScript collisions and if |
we | it could not be solved easily |
solve them
Further
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Integration Technologies
If you want to use another integration (e.g. web components, build your own user interface based on our API) please contact our support.