Forum Discussion
External Websites Published as Apps through App Studio
Hilton Giesenow - Sadly we do not own the target website. It's a SaaS app that we pay for. The underpinning for Teams is an HTML5 framework. What I was hoping was that in the desktop app there might be a way to have new windows that are opened by an app launch inside the teams client windows (potentially replacing the previously displayed page, or maybe by creating a tab?). Right now when I package the website in App Studio and then pin it to the sidebar, the site launches, authenticates, and then launches a new window which spawns a browser and takes the user outside of teams (boooo). I'd like to keep them inside the teams framework. I hope that helps / makes sense.
Todd_Knapp this is tricky because it's 3rd party. Is that popup -necessary-, or would it be fine to block it entirely (would the user miss it if it wasn't there?)?
Hilton Giesenow - Yeah.... it's a needed popup unfortunately. The software does something strange with MFA and launches a window temporarily during auth. I suspected this would be difficult. I was hoping that I could put the whole thing into a frame in Sharepoint and then publish that into the app? I dunno... I'm grasping at straws 🙂
- What happens once the user is authenticated? Can they just close the browser tab?
