Universal Embedder Documentation
  • Quick Start
  • What's New
  • Troubleshooting FAQ
  • How-tos
    • Opening the App Menu
    • Embed a link into an Item
      • Make Universal Embedder your default Item View
      • Select a single column to appear in your Item View
      • Preview your link in full screen
    • Embed a link as a Board View
    • Embed a link into your Dashboard
    • Embed a link directly into your Workspace menu
    • Edit the URL of a Workspace Embed
    • Edit the URL of a Dashboard Widget
    • Edit the URL of a Board View Embed
  • Generating a shareable link
    • How to generate a shareable link
    • Dropbox
    • Google Docs and Sheets
    • Google Form
    • Google Calendar
    • Outlook Calendar
    • Whimsical
    • Figma
    • Loom
    • Canva
    • OneDrive
    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
  • External Resources
    • About the monday apps marketplace
  • The monday link column
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  • About
  • Installing the App
  • Embed your link into an Item
  • Step 1 - Install Universal Embedder into your View
  • Step 2 - Add a Link Column to your board
  • Step 3 - Add a URL to a Board Link Column
  • Other embed locations
  • Embed your link as a Board View
  • Step 1 - Install Universal Embedder into your Board View
  • Step 2 - Add your URL
  • Add your link as a Dashboard Widget
  • Step 1 - Add Universal Embedder as a widget
  • Step 2 - Add your URL
  • Embed your link into your Workspace menu
  • Step 1 - Add Universal Embedder into your Workspace menu
  • Step 2 - Add your URL

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Quick Start

Universal Embedder lets you display any publicly available link or URL directly inside of monday.

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You can use Unviersal Embedder to embed and view links within the following parts of your monday account:

Installing the App

  1. Go to the app marketplace and search for Universal Embedder.

  2. Select the app, Add to account and Install.

  3. Now you can add Universal Embedder to your items, boards, dashboards and workspace.

Embed your link into an Item

If you want to embed links into individual items and have them display that content, there's a couple of steps you need to take.

Step 1 - Install Universal Embedder into your View

1. Go to the the Main Table of the monday board you would like to add the app to.

2. Click the Start Conversation button of any item in the Main Table view to open the item's Updates / Views Section

3. Click the Add View (+) button to open the Item Views Center, enter Universal Embedder in the search box, and click the Add to item button.

Step 2 - Add a Link Column to your board

  1. Open the board's Main Table view.

  2. Click the Add Column (+) button at the top right end of your board and select More columns from the menu to open the Column Center.

  3. Enter link in the search box and click the Add to board button.

Step 3 - Add a URL to a Board Link Column

  1. Click into the relevant Item's Link Column - Universal Embedder will only work when a link is added to a Link Column, so make sure your column is the right type.

  1. Hover over your Item and click Open.

  2. Choose the Universal Embedder View - within the Item Card you have different Views. If you are not already on the Universal Embedder View, click on the tab labelled Universal Embedder.

Other embed locations

Items aren't the only place you can embed links into using Universal Embedder. You can embed and view these links within the following parts of your monday account:

Embed your link as a Board View

If you have an important document or file you want to have easy access to from within your monday board, you can add it as a Board View using Universal Embedder:

Step 1 - Install Universal Embedder into your Board View

  1. Open the board you want to add the link or file to.

  2. Click the + sign to add a new View (it’s to the right of the Main Table view, below your board's title).

  3. Click on the Apps option in the dropdown.

  4. Type Universal Embedder into the search bar of the Views Center.

  5. Click the Get it now button.

Step 2 - Add your URL

  1. Paste the link into Universal Embedder - hit enter or click the OK button.

Add your link as a Dashboard Widget

It can also be handy to have easy access to a file within a dashboard. You can use Universal Embedder to embed a link or file like so:

Step 1 - Add Universal Embedder as a widget

  1. Find the dashboard you want to add your embedded file into.

  2. Click on the + Add widget button and select Apps.

  3. In the Widgets Center, type Universal Embedder into the search bar and click on it.

  4. Click on the Install button. Your Universal Embedder widget will be added to your dashboard.

Step 2 - Add your URL

  1. Paste the link into Universal Embedder - hit enter or click the OK button.

Embed your link into your Workspace menu

Step 1 - Add Universal Embedder into your Workspace menu

To add a file or URL into your Workspace's sidebar menu (where all of your Workspace's boards and dashboards are located):

  1. Click to the + Add icon in the Workspace's sidebar menu.

  2. Hover over Apps and select the Universal Embedder Workspace Embed option from the dropdown.

Step 2 - Add your URL

  1. Paste the link into Universal Embedder - hit enter or click the OK button.

Now your file is easy accessible directly from your Workspace menu, alongside all of your boards and dashboards.

The app displays URLs from a board's . If your board doesn't yet have a Link Column, you need to add one to your board (feel free to skip if you've already done this):

Grab the URL you want to add - first make sure the link is publicly available. If you need a hand figuring out how to generate a shareable link you can read .

- embed a link and view it from your monday board.

- embed a link and view it from a monday dashboard.

- embed a link and view it from your Workspace menu.

- embed a link directly into your items.

Grab the URL you want to add - first make sure the link is publicly available. If you need a hand figuring out how to generate your embed link you can read .

Grab the URL you want to add - first make sure the link is publicly available. If you need a hand figuring out how to generate a shareable link you can read .

Grab the URL you want to add - first make sure the link is publicly available. If you need a hand figuring out how to generate a shareable link you can read .

Link Columns
our guide here
Board Views
Dashboard Widgets
Workspace Embeds
Item Views
our guide here
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Item Views
Board Views
Dashboard Widgets
Workspace Embeds
Here's what an embedded Google Slides file looks like using the Item View with Universal Embedder:
A Google Slides link being embedded into the Workspace menu.