Overview

Intuiface experiences can be deployed to the cloud, making them accessible as stand-alone webpages and as iFrame-embeddable content. The same experience can be published multiple times, assigning each instance a unique URL.

This article explains how to deploy an experience as a webpage. For an alternative to this, see our article about deploying experiences as a Progressive Web App.

NOTE:

• Two licensing types are available for web deployments:
  • Player Licensing (available to all three Platform tiers)
  • Views Licensing (Platform Premier and Platform Enterprise only)
• See the corresponding articles to decide which is best for your deployment.
• Please review our article "Maximizing performance of web and PWA deployments" before publishing your experience as a webpage.

How to deploy an experience as a webpage

• Open the Experiences tab of the Share and Deploy Console and then select the experience you wish to deploy as a webpage.
• Select the "Deploy as webpage" tab and choose between the "Use Player Licensing" and "Use Views Licensing" options.
  • Please review our articles about Player Licensing and Views Licensing to determine which option makes the most sense for your deployment.
    

Create a URL using Player Licensing

You will see a list of URLs for each existing web deployment using Player Licensing. (If you've never deployed this experience with Player Licensing before, the list will be empty.) You will also see the total number of Player licenses in use across all published URLs, plus the number of available Player licenses.

• Create a URL by clicking the "Create URL" button at the bottom of the screen. This URL will exclusively use Player licensing, no matter how often it is loaded in a browser. On the other hand, the same experience can have both Player Licensing URLs and Views Licensing URLs simultaneously.
• The Webpage Settings panel is opened. All fields are optional, so you can just 1) copy the URL, then 2) click the Save button at the bottom to return to the "Deploy as webpage" tab.
  
  Optional settings
  • Notes: Information about this particular URL. For example, notes about how to distinguish the use of this URL from other URLs for the same experience.
  • License Retention Duration: The length of time during which the Player license will be allocated to a loaded webpage, even if offline. Choose from among preset values between 20 minutes and 30 days. It is not possible to force the release of a license during the retention duration. Once the retention duration is over, the license will be released when either 1) the device goes offline, or 2) the webpage is closed.
    NOTE: The retention duration countdown does not stop if the associated webpage is closed and then reopened. The countdown will continue and will be applied to the reopened webpage.
  • URL: The new URL you are creating. It always begins with 'https://web.intuiface.com/', followed by the slug. 
  • Slug: The customizable part of the URL. It defaults to the name of the experience, with spaces replaced by dashes. You can replace the default slug with any alphanumeric string of between 6 and 40 characters. Slugs must be unique and cannot already be used by your or any other Intuiface account.
  • Favicon: A 32x32 pixel icon that will appear on the web browser tab for this experience.
  • Page Title: The text that will appear in the browser tab and in search engine results. Limited to 70 characters.
  • Permit use in iFrame: Specify whether the URL - and thus the associated experience - can be embedded in an iFrame. It is with iFrames that Intuiface experiences can be embedded in third-party websites.
    • If you permit use in an iFrame, the following panel appears:
      
      
      • Example URL: An example of iFrame code using this particular URL. 
      • White List: List of domains permitted to host this experience within an iFrame or to cause the display of this experience in a new tab. If this list is empty, all domains are permitted.
  • Permit installation as an app: Specify whether the experience associated with the URL can be installed as a Progressive Web App.
    • If you permit installation as an app, the following panel appears:
      
      • App Icon: The icon that will appear on the app tile. Must be a square image of no more than 1MB in size, in the format ico, png, gif, or jpg.
      • App Name: The name that will appear on the app tile. Has a limit of 70 characters.

Clicking the Save button at the bottom of the "Webpage settings' panel will save all configuration updates.

Create a URL using Views Licensing

You will see a list of URLs for each existing web deployment using Views Licensing. (If you've never deployed this experience with Views Licensing before, the list will be empty.) You will also see the total number of views that have occurred during the current calendar month for all published URLs.

• Create a URL by clicking the "Create URL" button at the bottom of the screen. This URL will exclusively use Player licensing, no matter how often it is loaded in a browser. On the other hand, the same experience can have both Player Licensing URLs and Views Licensing URLs simultaneously.
• The Webpage Settings panel is opened. All fields are optional, so you can just 1) copy the URL, then 2) click the Save button at the bottom to return to the "Deploy as webpage" tab.

• Optional settings
  • Notes: Information about this particular URL. For example, notes about how to distinguish the use of this URL from other URLs for the same experience.
  • URL: The new URL you are creating. It always begins with 'https://web.intuiface.com/', followed by the slug. 
  • Slug: The customizable part of the URL. It defaults to the name of the experience, with spaces replaced by dashes. You can replace the default slug with any alphanumeric string of between 6 and 40 characters. Slugs must be unique and cannot already be used by your or any other Intuiface account.
  • Favicon: A 32x32 pixel icon that will appear on the web browser tab for this experience.
  • Page Title: The text that will appear in the browser tab and in search engine results. Limited to 70 characters.
  • Permit use in iFrame: Specify whether the URL - and thus the associated experience - can be embedded in an iFrame. It is with iFrames that Intuiface experiences can be embedded in third-party websites.
    • If you permit use in an iFrame, the following panel appears:
      
      
      • Example URL: An example of iFrame code using this particular URL. 
      • White List: List of domains permitted to host this experience within an iFrame or to cause the display of this experience in a new tab. If this list is empty, all domains are permitted.

Clicking the Save button at the bottom of the "Webpage settings' panel will save all configuration updates.

Validated web browsers

Intuiface has tested 'Deploy as webpage' in a variety of browsers. The use of browsers not listed here is discouraged.

Fully supported browsers:

• Chrome
• Safari
• Edge (Chrome-based)
• Firefox
• Brave
  • For iFrame embedding, you must disable "Block cookies"
    

Delete a URL

Deleting a URL accomplishes three things:

1. Unlinks that URL from the experience with which it was associated. Reloading the URL will result in a "Content not found" error.
2. Frees the URL slug for use in any newly created URL.
3. (for Progressive Web Apps) Releases the license associated with each running PWA instance.

To delete a URL, click its Edit icon.

then click the "Delete URL" button.