Webex Space Widget (@webex/widget-space)

The Webex Space Widget allows developers to easily incorporate Cisco Webex (formerly Cisco Spark) activities into an application.

Background

This widget handles coordination between your application and the Webex APIs, and provides components of the Webex space experience without having to build all of the front end UI yourself.

Our widget is built using React, Redux, and the Webex JavaScript SDK.

This widget supports:

1 on 1 and group space messaging
1 on 1 and group space video calling
Space Roster list and @mentions
Dialing by email address or SIP address
Inline Markdown
Sharing of files and documents
Previewing and downloading of files and documents
Flagging messages for follow up

Install

Depending on how comfortable you are with these frameworks, there are are a number of ways you can "install" our code.

Webex for Developers

If you haven't already, go to Cisco Webex for Developers and sign up for an account. Once you've created an account you can get your developer access token here.

When you want to eventually create an integration and have your own users take advantage of the widget, you'll need to create an integration with the spark:all scope.

Head over to the Webex for Developers Documentation for more information about how to setup OAuth for your app: https://developer.webex.com/docs/integrations

CDN

Using our CDN requires the least amount of work to get started. Add the following into your HTML file:

<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.s4d.io/widget-space/production/main.css">

<!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript -->
<script src="https://code.s4d.io/widget-space/production/bundle.js"></script>

For the latest builds that are pulled from the head of the master branch:

<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.s4d.io/widget-space/latest/main.css">

<!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript -->
<script src="https://code.s4d.io/widget-space/latest/bundle.js"></script>

Build from Source

Follow these instructions to checkout and build the react-widgets repo https://github.com/webex/react-widgets/blob/master/README.md
To build the Space Widget, run the following from the root directory:

npm run build:package widget-space

NPM

To use the space widget within an existing React appliction, a developer can install the component directly from npm.

Install the module via NPM

npm install --save @webex/widget-space

Add the following import statements

import SpaceWidget, {destinationTypes} from '@webex/widget-space';
// Sass import required to style widgets
import '@webex/widget-space/src/momentum.scss';

Declare and define the WidgetSpace properties

  const spaceWidgetProps = {
    accessToken: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX',  // Required
    destinationType: destinationTypes.USERID,
    destinationId: 'YOUR_DESTINATION_USERID',
    activities: {
      files: false,
      meet: true,
      message: false,
      people: true
    },
    initialActivity: 'meet'
  }

All of the React configurable properties are listed in the "Configuration" section.

The destinationTypes object consists of the following values:

destinationTypes.EMAIL
destinationTypes.USERID
destinationTypes.SPACEID
destinationTypes.SIP
destinationTypes.PSTN

Finally, render the widget

  <SpaceWidget {...spaceWidgetProps} />

Usage with Webex SDK

If you are developing an application that makes use of our Webex SDK in addition to the widgets, some additional configuration is needed.

In order for the Webex Space Widget to function in a project that is already using the Webex SDK via npm, the versions of the SDK must match specifically.

Any "@webex" packages that are added to your project manually need to match the versions in the widgets' package.json file.

Usage

Quick Start

If you would just like to get running immediately, follow these instructions to get a webpack-dev-server running with the widget.

Create a .env file in the root of the React project with the following lines, replacing the Xs with the appropriate value:
```
WEBEX_ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
SPACE_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
TO_PERSON_EMAIL=XXXXX@XXXXXXXXX
```
From the root directory run: npm run serve:package widget-space

Configuration

When loading the widgets there are some configuration options you can provide:

Authentication methods:

Name	Data API	Description
`accessToken`	`data-access-token`	Access token for the user account initiating the messaging session. For testing purposes you can use a developer access token from https://developer.webex.com.
`guestToken`	`data-guest-token`	Guest Access token for the user account initiating the messaging session. A guest issuer application is required to generate a guest token. https://developer.webex.com/docs/guest-issuer.
`sdkInstance`	N/A: global only feature	A Webex SDK instance that has already been created and authenticated.

Widget destination:

Name	Data API	Description
`destinationId`	`data-destination-id`	Space ID/email/user id of the space you want to open.
`destinationType`	`data-destination-type`	Type of space destination, one of: `email`, `userId`, `spaceId`, `sip`

Optional configurations:

Name	Data API	Description
`composerActions`	N/A: global only feature	(default: `composerActions: {attachFiles: true}`). When present and a property is set to false, that action button will be disabled in the message composer.
`initialActivity`	`data-initial-activity`	(default: `message`) Activity view to open with the widget. Available options: `message`: Message view `meet`: Meet view
`startCall`	`data-start-call`	(default: `false`) When present, widget will start in Meet view and initiate a call with the toPerson immediately.
`logLevel`	`data-log-level`	(default: `silent`) When present, widget will log debug information to console. This can be set to: `error`, `warn`, `debug`, `info`, `trace`, or `silent`
`secondaryActivitiesFullWidth`	N/A: global only feature	(default: `false`) When true, the widget's secondary activities will cover the entire main widget area. When false, only a portion of the widget will be covered.
`spaceActivities`	N/A: global only feature	(default: `spaceActivities: {files: true, meet: true, message: true, people: true}`). When present and a property is set to false, that activity will be disabled in the activities menu. Disabling the initial activity will result in an error.
`showSubmitButton`	N/A: global only feature	(default: `false`). When property is set to true, a submit button will be available in the message composer.
`sendMessageOnReturnKey`	N/A: global only feature	(default: `true`). When property is set to false, the return key will not send a message when typing in the composer. This is useful if you want to allow users to insert blank lines in their messages. Setting both `sendMessageOnReturnKey` and `showSubmitButton` to `false` will result in an error.

External Control

The space widget allows for developers to control actions and behaviors via properties. These properties, when set, will make the widget perform certain actions, like switching to different activities.

Note: these actions are triggered by the properties changing from empty to populated. This means to perform a second action, the property will need to be set back to empty before changing.

Name	Description
`setCurrentActivity`	Sets the user's current activity in the widget. Possible cases are `meet` or `message`.

HTML

The easiest way to get the Webex Space Widget into your web site is to add the built resources and attach data attributes to your a container.

If you're using our CDN, skip to the next section.

Copy the resources in the dist directory to own project.
Add a <script /> tag to your page to include the bundle.js
Add a <link /> tag to include main.css

Browser

Create an Express web application to serve the Space Widget. This is the preferred method to enable CORS.

If you're loading an HTML file directly in the browser, use Firefox or start Chrome with the --allow-file-access-from-files flag. This is not preferred because it introduces a security risk.

open -a "Google Chrome" --args --allow-file-access-from-files

Browser Globals

If you need additional behaviors or need to do additional work before the widget loads, it may be useful for to programmatically instatiate the widget after the intial page loads.

<div id="my-webexteams-widget" />
<script>
  var widgetEl = document.getElementById('my-webexteams-widget');
  // Init a new widget
  webex.widget(widgetEl).spaceWidget({
    accessToken: 'AN_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    destinationType: 'spaceId',
    destinationId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
  });
</script>

my-webexteams-widget is an arbitrary id to illustrate one way to select the DOM element. But please ensure that the widgetEl that you pass to webex.widget() is a DOM element.

You can also attach to an existing widget. Currently this gives you access to events. Other functionality will be added in future releases.

var widgetEl = document.getElementById('webexteams-widget-id');
var widgetObject = webex.widget(widgetEl);

Widget Teardown

When a widget needs to be removed from the page you will want to call the .remove() method. This will close any network connections active and remove the widget from the DOM. You can also pass a callback as a parameter to the .remove() method. The method also returns a Promise that is thenable.

The returned value, removed, is true if a matching widget has been removed, and is false no widget was found.

// Basic remove
webex.widget(widgetEl).remove();

// With callback
webex.widget(widgetEl).remove(function(removed) {
  if (removed) {
    console.log('removed!');
  }
});

// With Promise
webex.widget(widgetEl).remove().then(function(removed) {
  if (removed) {
    console.log('removed!');
  }
});

NOTE: If you are also using the Webex JS SDK on the same page, please be sure to load that before you load the widget scripts.

Data API

If you would like to embed with the widget without any additional behaviors into your page, use this data api. The div containing our data-toggle attribute must exist on the page before our JavaScript bundle loads.

Create a container where you would like to embed the widget and use the configuration options to load the widget. Be sure to include data-toggle="webex-space".

<div
  class="webexteams-widget"
  data-toggle="webex-space"
  data-access-token="AN_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  data-destination-id="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  data-destination-type="spaceId"
  />

Events

The Space widget exposes a few events for hooking into widget functionality. You can directly add DOM event listener like this:

<div
  class="webexteams-widget"
  data-toggle="webex-space"
  data-access-token="AN_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  data-destination-id="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  data-destination-type="spaceId"
  />
<script>
  document.getElementById('webexteams-widget').addEventListener('EVENT_NAME', function(event) {
    // Handle the event here
    console.log(event.detail);
  });
</script>

If you are using browser globals, you can provide a callback parameter that will fire whenever any event occurs. You can filter the actions using the name provided like this:

var widgetEl = document.getElementById('my-webexteams-widget');
// Init a new widget
webex.widget(widgetEl).spaceWidget({
  accessToken: 'AN_ACCESS_TOKEN',
  destinationId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
  destinationType: 'spaceId',
  onEvent: callback
});

function callback(name, detail) {
  if (name === 'messages:created') {
    // Perform an action if a new message has been created
  }
}

Or you can use the ampersand-events API to listen to events like this:

var widgetEl = document.getElementById('webexteams-widget');
webex.widget(widgetEl).on('messages:created', function(e) {
  console.log(e.detail);
});

All available events are outlined in our events guide.

Answering Incoming Calls and Meetings

In order to answer an incoming call you may do the following depending on what information is available when answering the call:

if it is a space meeting, the spaceId

  webex.widget(widgetEl).spaceWidget({
    accessToken: 'AN_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    destinationType: 'spaceId',
    destiationId: 'SPACE_ID'
});

a call object provided by the calls:created event from the recents widget (use this for incoming pstn and sip calls):

  webex.widget(widgetEl).spaceWidget({
    accessToken: 'AN_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    call: callObject
  });

Browser Support

This widget has been tested on the following browsers for messaging and meeting:

Current release of Chrome
Current release of Firefox

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Webex Space Widget (@webex/widget-space)

Table of Contents

Background

Install

Webex for Developers

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Usage with Webex SDK

Usage

Quick Start

Configuration

External Control

HTML

Browser

Browser Globals

Widget Teardown

Data API

Events

Answering Incoming Calls and Meetings

Browser Support

More Examples

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Webex Space Widget (@webex/widget-space)

Table of Contents

Background

Install

Webex for Developers

CDN

Build from Source

NPM

Usage with Webex SDK

Usage

Quick Start

Configuration

External Control

HTML

Browser

Browser Globals

Widget Teardown

Data API

Events

Answering Incoming Calls and Meetings

Browser Support

More Examples

Contribute

License