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Embed an app in the sidebar

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You can add another web application to Zendo as a sidebar item. It opens on its own page under /apps/…, so a spreadsheet, a design file or an internal tool sits right next to Requests and Orders instead of in a separate browser tab. Apps are added on Settings › Portal › Sidebar content.


Add the app to a sidebar


  1. Open Settings › Portal › Sidebar content.
  2. Open the sidebar the app should appear in: the one created for Internal users if it is for your team, or the one created for Clients if it is for your client portal.
  3. On Elements, select Add new sidebar element and choose Apps.
  4. In Select app, choose an app from the examples, or Add external app for any other one.
  5. Expand the new item. Change its Label if needed, set the Slug, the end of its address under /apps/, and paste the app's share or embed link into Content. To check the link, select Preview content.
  6. Drag the item to where it should be. If it belongs to a group, nest it under that group's Heading.
  7. If only some people should see the app, expand its row and use Limit visibility of this item.
  8. Turn on Live preview to check the sidebar.
  9. Select Update to publish the sidebar. Until then it stays in Draft, which no one sees.


Select app: pick an example, or Add external app (4).


The app item: label, slug and content (5), Preview content, and Limit visibility of this item. (7). The new item already shows in the preview sidebar.



In the sidebar, an app and an external link look the same. The difference is where they open:


  • An Apps item opens inside Zendo, on its own page, with the sidebar still next to it.
  • An External Link opens outside Zendo.


Apps can be used, for example, for tools that people work in all day, and External Link for pages they only look at now and then. See Change what is in the client sidebar and Change your team's sidebar.


Showing the app to some people only


With the Limit visibility of this item. option, you choose who sees the app: selected clients and client teams. Nobody else sees it, and you do not need a second sidebar for this.


If the difference is bigger, for example a whole different sidebar for one client or one role, duplicate the sidebar and limit who sees the copy. The default sidebar is always visible to everyone. See Show different things to different clients.


Embedding Zendo in your website is a separate setting


This article is about showing another app inside Zendo. The opposite — showing Zendo inside your own website — works through Embeddable domains on Settings › Workspace › Integrations: the list of websites allowed to load Zendo in an iframe. Zendo cannot be embedded on a domain that is not on that list.


The code to embed a form is in the form's ⋯ menu in Forms, under Embed form. See Embed a form on your own website.



Updated on: 09/11/2026

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