External Content

You can use this section to access photographs and other documents from multiple external data sources, and integrate them into your mobile website. You can, for example, access photos from publicly available Flickr® or Google Picasa® web albums. Once your mobile website is published, you may upload photos to Flickr or Picasa, and the mobile site will then display the newly added items. You can also access your Google Docs™ documents. The mobile website will always present the latest contents of the selected document.

To add an External Content section to your mobile web page:

  1. Go to the editor
  2. Click Customize
  3. Use the mouse to drag and drop the External Content icon from the toolbar into its new position on the page

To display images from Flickr or Picasa:

  1. Go to the editor
  2. Click within an existing External Content section
  3. Select Flickr Photos or Picasa Photos from the drop-down list, and click Add Content.
  4. Enter a Flickr/Picasa username and click Fetch Images. The publicly available images that belong to the selected user will be displayed in the preview section.
  5. Pick the number of images to be displayed on the mobile web page. The specified number of the latest items will be selected.
  6. Choose a set of pictures (album)
  7. The Filter attribute allows you to search the list of available images. If specified, then only the photos that contain defined phrase in either their title, description or one of their tags will be presented.
  8. Click Update to refresh the preview section
  9. Click Apply changes to complete the process

To embed Google Docs documents:

  1. Go to the editor
  2. Click within an existing External Content section
  3. Select Google Docs from the drop-down list, and click Add Content.
  4. UBIK.com must be authorized to access your Google Docs documents:
    1. Click Go to Google Docs. You will be taken to the Google login web page.
    2. Sign in to Google
    3. Click Grant access to authorize the ubik.com site to access your Google Docs documents
  5. A list of your Google Docs documents will be shown in the preview section of the editor
    Note: At present only text documents are supported.
  6. The Filter attribute allows you to search the list of available documents by name. Click Update to refresh the list.
  7. Click on the name of a document to preview its contents
  8. Select a document to be displayed on your mobile web page
  9. Click Apply changes to complete the process