The Zoom widget puts a Join Meeting button for a Zoom meeting on a dashboard. Think of a door to the call that sits beside the work the call is about. You paste the Zoom meeting link into the widget and add a short description.
Here is the test: does the team join the same Zoom meeting from this dashboard, again and again? If yes, add this widget. For a Google Meet call, use the Google Meet widget.
Example: a Vendor Management solution. The external auditor runs fieldwork calls on Zoom. On the auditor's tab of the Vendor risk overview dashboard, a Zoom widget titled Audit fieldwork call carries the link and a one-line description. The Security lead selects Join Meeting and the meeting opens.
The Audit fieldwork call widget on the auditor's tab: the title, the description and the Join Meeting button.
Plan Availability | All plan types. |
Permissions | Solution Managers and members with Full Access add and change widgets on a public dashboard; the owner does on a private one; every member who can open the dashboard sees the widget. |
Platform | Web |
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Adding a Zoom widget
Open the dashboard and set the View | Edit switch in the upper right to Edit.
Select + Add Widget. The Add New Widget sidebar opens on the right, with a search box (Search Widget) and 13 collapsible categories. Only Page Display is open to start.
Open Conferencing and select Zoom. The card's info icon reads "Embed a Zoom in your dashboard to easily join calls."
The Zoom window opens. The live preview is on the left and the settings on the right, on one tab, General. The preview reads Set a value for preview until you give it something to show.
Under Settings, paste the meeting link into Zoom Link and, if you want, write a Meeting description. The preview shows a blue Join Meeting button.
Select Add Widget at the foot of the window. Cancel discards it.
The widget lands at the top left of the dashboard as a small block, with its title above the content. Hover over it and drag the pill on its right edge or its bottom edge to resize it; the width snaps to the dashboard's four-column grid. The dashboard saves on its own. There is no Save button.
The widget settings
The settings sit on the right of the window under two headings, Heading and Settings. Each collapses with the chevron at its right. The window's header holds a gear that shows or hides the settings, a three-dot More Options menu (Highlight Color, Duplicate Widget and Collapsed by Default) and an X. Close with the X after a change and the window asks whether you want to exit without saving. Its buttons are Exit Without Saving and Save Changes.
Heading
Title is the text shown above the widget on the dashboard. It is prefilled with the widget's name, so change it to what the content is, such as Audit fieldwork call. Description is a switch, off to start. Turn it on and a text box appears with a small toolbar: bold, italic, underline, text color, highlight, link, bullet list and numbered list. Two tabs set where the description shows. As A Tooltip puts it behind an info icon next to the title. Below The Title shows it under the title, and is selected to start.
Zoom Link
The meeting link from Zoom. The box shows the placeholder https://zoom.us/j/your-meeting-id. The helper under it reads "Paste a link to your Zoom Meeting in the text box above." The button opens this link. Nothing is framed: the widget is the button, not the meeting. Typing something that is not a link showed no message in the product read; the preview simply stays empty.
Meeting description
Optional. A text box with the placeholder Describe your meeting (optional), for the agenda or a one-line purpose.
The Zoom window: Heading, the Zoom Link box with its placeholder and the Meeting description box on the right, the blue Join Meeting button in the preview.
Getting the link from Zoom
The widget holds a link. It does not create the meeting. These steps happen in Zoom, not in SmartSuite.
In Zoom, open the meeting and copy its invite link.
Paste it into the widget's Zoom Link box.
A recurring Zoom meeting keeps one link. A one-off meeting needs a new link next time.
Tip: Give the widget a Title that names the meeting and its day. A dashboard with two calls then reads at a glance.
Permissions
Solution Managers and members with Full Access add, change and remove widgets on a public dashboard. The owner of a private dashboard does the same on it. Every member who can open the dashboard sees the widget. Whether they can enter the meeting is decided by Zoom, not by SmartSuite. A dashboard shared by link shows everything on it to anyone with the link, this widget included. See Dashboard Settings and Public Dashboard Sharing.
Using the widget
In View mode the widget shows its title, the description and the blue Join Meeting button. Select the button and the Zoom meeting link opens, the same as it would from an email. Nothing on the dashboard changes.
Note: The widget holds a link. Whatever Zoom asks for at the door, such as a passcode or a waiting room, it still asks for. The widget does not bypass it.
The live article states that the Zoom widget is displayed in the SmartSuite mobile app as well as on the web; see Mobile Dashboard Widgets: Supported Features and Limitations Guide.
Editing a Zoom widget
In Edit mode, hover over the widget. A strip appears with a drag handle (Drag Widget), Move Up, Move Down, Edit and a three-dot More Options menu. Select Edit to reopen the window, change the link, the description or the title and select Save Changes. Drag the handle to move the widget; a dashed placeholder shows where it will land. Duplicating and deleting are in the More Options menu, and the delete prompt names the widget; see Managing Widgets.
Frequently asked questions
What happens when someone selects Join Meeting?
What happens when someone selects Join Meeting?
The Zoom meeting link opens, the same as it would from an email. Zoom decides whether they can enter.
Should I put the passcode in the description?
Should I put the passcode in the description?
Only if everyone who can open the dashboard may join the call. The description is visible to every viewer of the dashboard.
Can I use a one-off meeting link?
Can I use a one-off meeting link?
Yes. Replace the link when the next meeting is created, or use a recurring meeting so the link does not change.
Can I put two calls on one dashboard?
Can I put two calls on one dashboard?
Yes. Add one Zoom widget per call and give each a clear title.
Last verified 30 Oct 2026.


