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Use custom tabs to display external Web pages in an Assembla project. You can add a tab that opens an external website such as your company Intranet, a public forum, or any website to an Assembla project's tabs toolbar.

Configure the tab to open the URL in a new window or in an IFRAME inside of your Assembla space view. You can create an unlimited number of custom tabs in a space.

In Assembla, click Space Settings &gt; Tools, and then scroll down to the Other section.

In the Customer Tab area, click Add or Add Another. A new tab appears in your tabs toolbar.

Open the custom tab, and then click Configure Your Custom Tab to set it up.

In the Settings page, check Open in a new window to specify whether the URL should open in a new browser tab or in an inline frame inside the tool tab. Note: For inline frame to work, the URL must be an https URL. For http URLs, turn on the option, Open in a new window.

Type the URL for the external website in the URL field. You can use variables in the URL field. Available variables are:

- space_name This is the project name.
- current_user This is the username of the team member viewing the custom tab. For example, if the URL you enter for your custom tab is: http://mydomain/space_name/current_user Then, if the tab is in a space named "assembla-project" and being viewed by a team member with the username "andy", the URL that is used to display the contents of the tab is: http://mydomain/assembla-project/andy

In Tab name, give the new custom tab a friendly, descriptive name to appear in the tabs list.

In the Icon setting, you can specify a different icon URL or choose to use no icon for the tab. By default, the icon shown for the tab is the Favicon for that URL.

When done, click Update Tab Settings. The new custom tab is now visible to all team members and ready for use.

1. In Assembla, click Space Settings &gt; Tools, and then scroll down to the Other section.
2. In the Customer Tab area, click Add or Add Another. A new tab appears in your tabs toolbar.
3. Open the custom tab, and then click Configure Your Custom Tab to set it up. 
4. In the Settings page, check Open in a new window to specify whether the URL should open in a new browser tab or in an inline frame inside the tool tab. Note: For inline frame to work, the URL must be an https URL. For http URLs, turn on the option, Open in a new window.
5. Type the URL for the external website in the URL field. You can use variables in the URL field. Available variables are:
 - space_name This is the project name.
 - current_user This is the username of the team member viewing the custom tab. For example, if the URL you enter for your custom tab is: http://mydomain/space_name/current_user Then, if the tab is in a space named "assembla-project" and being viewed by a team member with the username "andy", the URL that is used to display the contents of the tab is: http://mydomain/assembla-project/andy
6. In Tab name, give the new custom tab a friendly, descriptive name to appear in the tabs list.
7. In the Icon setting, you can specify a different icon URL or choose to use no icon for the tab. By default, the icon shown for the tab is the Favicon for that URL. 
8. When done, click Update Tab Settings. The new custom tab is now visible to all team members and ready for use.

You can hide a custom tab from users with Watcher status by going to Space Settings &gt; Security, and then setting the Watchers access permission on the specific custom tab to None.

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Adding a custom tab

Hiding a custom tab from Watchers