Background

NEXT is the central workspace for innovation projects. Working through a project, users might use all kinds of specialized tools to create artifacts. Those artifacts can be easily embedded in the NEXT editor. The editor will show for each embedded artifact an iFrame provided by the tooling partner.

Example use cases:

Create a mockup in Figma or InVision
Use Miro as a digital whiteboard in a remote ideation session
Model revenue & profit in Excel/Office 365

How to become a tooling partner

Please reach out to partner@nextapp.co if you're interested in becoming a tooling partner.

To become a tooling partner, your solution must have a live embed that can be inserted into an iFrame.

NEXT needs the following information to enable your tool in the editor:

Information	Example
URL pattern of embeddable files	https://www.example.com/files/.*
Explanation of how to convert embeddable URLs into iFrame URLs (aka "live URL")	Convert https://www.example.com/files/<FILENAME> to https://www.example.com/embed/<FILENAME>
Name + description for the editor command menu
An icon in SVG format (this will be shown in a square space)

User authentication

NEXT does not pass any information about the logged-in user. Your iFrame embed, therefore, has to check a) who the user is and b) if the user is allowed to access the content in your embed. You could e.g. require the users to log into the embed or use a cookie set earlier when the user logged into your app.