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Embed your live handbook

Your handbook can appear inside your own intranet or HR site. Employees read it there, and it always shows the latest version from Handbooks, so there are no files to re-upload when policies change.

Platform guides​

Using another platform? Follow the steps below, then add the embed code wherever your platform accepts embed (iframe) code.

The live link is a read-only web page of your handbook. It needs an active Handbooks subscription.

  1. Sign in to Handbooks, open your handbook and click Share.
  2. Switch the sharing toggle on.
  3. Under Customise your public URL, type the ending for your address, for example your-company. This gives you https://www.handbooks.io/your-company.
  4. Click Save, then Copy URL.

Anyone with the link can read the handbook without signing in, and search engines are asked not to list it. The live link shows the English version of your handbook.

Embed code​

Replace your-company with your link's ending:

<iframe src="https://www.handbooks.io/your-company/" width="100%" height="900"></iframe>
  • height is in pixels. Raise it to show more of the handbook at once.
  • At 1,024 pixels wide or more, a clickable table of contents appears beside the text.

Handbooks doesn't limit which websites can show your handbook. Some platforms only accept embeds from approved websites, so an admin may need to approve www.handbooks.io first.

Keeping it current​

Edits you make in Handbooks, and policy updates you approve, show in the embed as soon as they're saved. The embed stops showing your handbook if you change the URL ending, switch sharing off, or your subscription ends. Employees then see a Handbooks page reading "Looking for a handbook?" instead.