The Webpage widget shows a live web page inside a dashboard. Think of a window onto another site, cut into the page. You give it the page's address, or an embed code from the site, and the page appears on the dashboard.
Here is the test: is the content a web page that people should see beside their records, and does the site allow its pages to be embedded? If yes, add this widget. For a Google Doc, a video or a Figma file, the matching widget needs less setup.
Example: a Vendor Management solution. The Security lead wants the company's Trust Center page on the auditor's tab of the Vendor risk overview dashboard. A Webpage widget titled Trust Center shows it from its address. A page that blocks framing shows nothing, so the Security lead tests the address in the widget before the audit starts.
The auditor's tab of the Vendor risk overview with the Trust Center page in a Webpage widget.
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 Webpage 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 Page Display and select Webpage. The card's info icon reads "Embed a Webpage directly in your dashboard."
The Webpage 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, keep Embed URL selected and paste the page's address into the box, or select Embed HTML and paste the site's embed code. The preview frames the page.
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 Trust Center. 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.
Embed URL
Selected to start. The page's address goes in the box marked Paste URL. The tooltip on the choice reads "Specify the URL of the website you want to embed." Paste the full link. Type something that is not a link and a red line appears under the box: The URL needs to start with https://. Add Widget stays enabled, so check the preview before you add. A page whose site refuses framing shows the message This URL cannot be embed in the preview instead of the page.
Embed HTML
The second choice. A text box marked Paste HTML code takes the embed code a site offers for its content, pasted whole. The tooltip reads "Paste your embed HTML in the textbox above." Use it when a site gives you an embed code instead of a plain address. The Custom Code widget has the same two choices, with Embed HTML selected to start.
The Webpage window: the framed page in the preview on the left, Heading and the two choices Embed URL and Embed HTML with their tooltips on the right.
Checking that the page can be embedded
A page can be embedded only if its site allows it. Check it in the widget's own preview.
Open the page and copy its address, or copy the embed code the site offers.
Paste it into the widget and look at the preview.
If the preview says This URL cannot be embed, the site blocks framing. Ask the site's owner, or link to the page from a Button Row widget instead.
A site that sends an X-Frame-Options header that blocks framing, or that enforces same-origin, cannot be displayed. The message is the site's answer, not a SmartSuite setting.
Tip: Try the address in a test widget on a private dashboard first. If it renders there, it renders on the public one.
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. What they see inside it is the page as the site serves it, with the site's own sign-in if it has one. 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 and the page as the site renders it, inside a frame on the dashboard. Members scroll, select and sign in inside the frame as they would in a browser tab. Hover over the widget and a full screen icon and a three-dot menu appear at its top right. Resize the widget by the pill on its edge so the page fits.
Note: The page owner decides whether a page can be framed. The message This URL cannot be embed is the site's answer, not a setting on the dashboard.
The live mobile guide lists the Webpage widget as supported in the SmartSuite mobile app; see Mobile Dashboard Widgets: Supported Features and Limitations Guide.
The preview with a page that refuses framing: the message This URL cannot be embed.
Editing a Webpage 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 address, the code 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
Why does the widget say This URL cannot be embed?
Why does the widget say This URL cannot be embed?
The site blocks framing with an X-Frame-Options header, or enforces same-origin. Both are set by the site, not in SmartSuite.
Embed URL or Embed HTML: which do I use?
Embed URL or Embed HTML: which do I use?
Embed URL for a plain page. Embed HTML when a site offers an embed code for its content, such as a map or a social post.
How is this different from the Custom Code widget?
How is this different from the Custom Code widget?
The two widgets share one window with the same two choices. Webpage starts on Embed URL; Custom Code starts on Embed HTML.
Can the page see my SmartSuite data?
Can the page see my SmartSuite data?
No. The page runs inside its own frame and has no access to the dashboard or the records.
Does the widget cost extra?
Does the widget cost extra?
No. Dashboards and their widgets are included on every plan.
Last verified 30 Oct 2026.



