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The Web Browser Display (available since 2016.01) can display a URL URLs that has been configured for a topology node in the topology.xml.

Configuration (up to Delft-FEWS 2018.02)

To use the  HTML5 Display, configure it as <explorerTask> in Explorer.xml. For example:

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		<explorerTask name="Web Browser Display">
			<iconFile>document.png</iconFile>
			<mnemonic>h</mnemonic>
			<taskClass>nl.wldelft.fews.gui.plugin.webbrowser.WebBrowserDisplay</taskClass>
			<toolbarTask>false</toolbarTask>
			<menubarTask>true</menubarTask>
			<accelerator>ctrl h</accelerator>
			<loadAtStartup>false</loadAtStartup>
		</explorerTask>	


Configuration (Delft-FEWS 2018.02 onwards)

In Delft-FEWS 2018.02 (and later), a new package (Java Chromium Embedded Framework  - JCEF) is taking care of launching this display. By default, this package is NOT installed and available through the Delft-FEWS libraries and need to be installed separately. Also some configuration adjustments are required to get this running if you were already using it in previous versions. If you want to add this display, you can find the complete instructions here as well.

Configuration instructions (for enabling the Web Browser Display from scratch)

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Configuration instructions (for enabling the Web Browser Display from previous versions of Delft-FEWS)

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Displaying Content

To display content in the Web Browser Display,topology nodes can be extended with an optional url. In the following example, the FEWS wiki has been configured with the url http://www.deltares.nl. 

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