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has anyone tried embedding airtable spreadsheet into Miro board?


If yes, could you share your experience?

Any performance issues?


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Hi Sikandar PF,

Other users will probably add more personal feedback, but I’ll just provide some general information on this topic. 

The current implementation of our integration only allows for one-way data upload - from Miro to Airtable. You can embed your Miro boards in Airtable as blocks, but not vice versa. You can learn more about how the integration works in this Help article.

As a workaround, you can generate a shared base link of your Airtable base and embed it to an existing Miro board using the iFrame Embed widget. After that, your base will be embedded into Miro in a read-only mode. You can also upload an exported .csv Airtable spreadsheet to your board or paste stickies from spreadsheets.
 

Hope this helps !

As a workaround, you can generate a shared base link of your Airtable base and embed it to an existing Miro board using the iFrame Embed widget. After that, your base will be embedded into Miro in a read-only mode. You can also upload an exported .csv Airtable spreadsheet to your board or paste stickies from spreadsheets.
 

Hope this helps !

 

I’m following these steps with no luck.

I get a static box instead of an embed view.

 

 

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Hello @SikandarPF @Yvain and @David Lopez 

How can I link Airtable board into Miro?

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@Julien - From reading the Miro Airtable app and Help Center article documentation, the app allows you to embed Miro boards into Airtable bases and not the other way around - as per the Airtable Help Center article:

 

If you wish to embed an Airtable object a Miro board, I would suggest that you refer to the following Airtable Support article:

https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/217846478-Embedding-a-view-or-base

There seems to be a new behavior with embedding an airtable view in Miro. 

 

Previously, after copying the iframe code from Airtable and using the embed tool, I would get something like this.

 

I would click on the object and the embedded view would pop up over the Miro board showing the desired records. No new tabs would open. The view would sit on top of the Miro board. Here is a snippet.

 

 

About a week ago I tried adding a new Airtable view iframe snippet and now I am seeing what David has posted. Obviously clicking on this now opens a new tab presenting the view. This defeats one of the great features of Miro when sharing a board via Google Meet: presenting everything from Miro and avoiding leapfrog with Chrome tabs. I hope the original embed behavior returns. Whether it does or not, at least some notification would be appreciated.

 

 

I get the same problem. I can generate the iframe code in airtable. But when I embed it into a miro board I just get a black box. It will not load the airtable spreadsheet. 

 

 

Hi, we have the same problem – is there still no satisfying workaround? We would love to embed an airtable sheet to our miro board. Thank you!

Make sure you are pasting the link you find here (partly covered with orange in the screenshot): 

 

 

☝️ That worked for me.

However, when I enable the option “Restrict access to an email domain” I get the same error:

 

 

Enabling every other option except protecting by domain still renders fine.


However, with password protection enabled, even though it renders fine, I can’t enter the password, and therefore it can’t be used:

 

 

This is super frustrating – I cannot even see a preview when I add my share view link to Miro. Are there any new tips on this. It would be so great if we could embed on Miro! Thanks!

Miro allows embedding content Crictime through the "Embed" widget. This widget supports embedding from various sources, but it's essential to ensure that the source content is compatible with Miro's embedding capabilities. I hope you understand it.

Okay, so I sort of managed to get it working. But it’s pretty silly how fiddly it is and completely undiscoverable. And even when you do get it working it’s a bit janky to interactive with but this is the process:

First use the `Share and sync` button to get a shareable link to the current view.


That url should look a little something like this: https://airtable.com/apphTK5wsfsuUQ5j/shr0g9NsafdHYMc24Rh/tblqy57rWasTB2KAn

Combine this part of the url https://airtable.com/ with the middle path segment (the segment starting with “shr” to give you something like https://airtable.com/shr0g9NsafdHYMc24Rh

Copy that new url into the Embed iFrame Code dialog box in miro:


And that should give you this:


Hovering over it should now bring up an “Open” button.


Clicking that open button will now display the airtable embeded into the miro board:


The big drawback is that if you click away from the airtable board it closes the board again :(

I figured all this out since looking at the network traffic when adding an embed I noticed that miro uses a service called embedly and googling that shows it’ll detect airtable urls in the form of `https://airtable.com/shr*` (https://embed.ly/provider/airtable)

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