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Yellowfin allows partners and clients to integrate This section provides information on integrating Yellowfin into an existing application or intranet. This allows for seamless user and data integration, and for the replication of user security at the report data level.
Integration Methods
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- Tight Integration: This method embeds Yellowfin as a re-branded, tightly integrated portal. This is done by creating a seamless link between the parent application and Yellowfin, without making the end-user aware that they have navigated from the parent application to another. This involves customizing Yellowfin with the custom header and footer with links that navigate to the third-party application. The user will easily experience the full range of Yellowfin features within the external website.
- IFrames: Yellowfin widgets can be integrated into external interfaces using IFRAME. This provides for a seamless user experience with full Yellowfin functionality.
- Web Services: This method is used to manage communications between third-party applications and Yellowfin by using web services. Yellowfin provides a Java web service API for connecting to SOAP web services, but it is also possible to connect using any other programming language or environment. This method requires advanced developer knowledge, but provides flexible navigation.
- JavaScript API: This method lets Yellowfin reports and dashboards to be embedded into an external web page using scriptlets. This method makes for a quick and easy way to integrate Yellowfin, without the need for advanced developer knowledge.
- IFrames: Yellowfin widgets can be integrated into external interfaces using IFRAME. This provides for a seamless user experience with full Yellowfin functionality.
Choosing a Method
Choosing one method over the other, depends on your company's requirements and technical abilities. Consider the following cases to help you decide on a method:
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- Requires Yellowfin to be loaded into an external page, with custom header and footers added with links to your application. Tight integration can be loaded via iFrames also.
- Gives you control on the information to share with your users. You can provide them with a few interactive dashboards, reports, etc. with the same level of security. Or share the full range of functionality.
- Have the flexibility to include further Yellowfin functionality in the future.
- Allows you to control the exact functionalities your users can access, depending on their role function.
- Allows users to single sign-on into Yellowfin.
- Requires some development knowledge to write header/footer JSPs to pass relevant data to your application. (Yellowfin includes some examples of these in the \Yellowfin\Development\Examples directory.)
- The header and footer would require restyling to maintain your corporate brand. Click here to learn how to do this.
- This is the most recommended and widely used integration method.
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- Loads Yellowfin into your website by using IFrame tags.
- Single sign-on is possible.
- This could result in security flaws due to IFramemethod is not as secure as the other ones.
- Issues related to browser display can also arise.Single sign-on is possible.
- This is merely a means of embedding; one of the other integration methods would still be required.
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