Embedding In-context Actions

If, as a developer, you require that your host page interacts with the embedded Sisense elements via code, then you must use Embed SDK, Sisense JS, or Compose SKD, and not regular IFrames.

For example, these interactions can be: setting or removing dashboard filters, manipulating widget metadata, triggering actions inside Sisense (such as PDF exports or navigation, and many other examples), subscribing and reacting to events, etc. There are many and varied interactions/functions that are supported in each embedding method. See the Embedding Sisense Dashboards documentation that lists each library's capabilities, and read through and discover what is available in each before making a decision.

If you only need to display a dashboard, an IFrame is sufficient. However, IFrame does not allow the host page and the Sisense app to communicate with each other.

For this issue, you should consider cases such as "We need different filters to appear on the same dashboard based on the context, and not just which user is accessing them."

Resizing an embedded element, whether a dashboard or a widget, can be done via all embedding methods. So to decide which method to use, evaluate the other criteria: Embedding Methods.

If you want to export dashboards to PDF, or export widgets to image/CSV, and so on, this is only fully supported in Embed SDK. With Sisense JS, it is possible to export an individual widget to CSV or Excel (for pivots) but not through Sisense JS itself; you would have to use a REST API call, which is not so straightforward.

In regular IFrames, you cannot export dash to PDF because they lack the interactivity mentioned above. In Sisense JS, you cannot export a dash to PDF because there is no dashboard to export - Sisense JS embeds individual widgets into whatever layout the developer has built, and there is no way for Sisense to 'know' what that looks like.