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This page describes the different frontend technologies of integrating the Product Guide into your website or applications.

(smile) If you don't want to get into the details, just follow our recommendation to use the JavaScript integration.


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.


integrationadvantagesdisadvantagessupported by excentoscomments
JavaScript

there are no "real serious" disadvantages.

However, please be aware of the following:

  • in very rare cases, we encountered conflicts of the website's CSS or JavaScript with excentos CSS and JavaScript classes. We then had to implement a workaround to rename our CSS classes
    (we thus now use "xc" prefix for all CSS classes so CSS conflicts should really be a very rare case)
yeswe 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 or excentos will need to provide an iFrame that dynamically adapts to the size of the Product Guide, also in responsive behaviour (e.g. different height for question cards than for recommendation list)
yes, but may require initial support / customizationwe would advice to only use iFrame if you encountered CSS / JavaScript collisions and if we could not easily solve them

Further 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.

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