Run Flex Insights on a Custom Domain
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This article helps you to take the full advantage of Historical Reporting in Flex. It guides you through enabling Historical Reporting for self-hosted Flex and for your local development environment.
If you use hosted Flex on flex.twilio.com domain you do not need to take any action. Access to Flex Insights Historical Reporting from flex.twilio.com domain is allowed by default. If you still have difficulty accessing Historical Reporting please contact our support.
With full access to Historical Reporting you can enhance your Flex Instance with important contextual data that help your users make informed decisions in any situation.
Self-Hosted Flex on Custom Domain
If you use self-hosted Flex you need to ask our support team to allow access from domains that your Flex runs on. Follow these steps:
- Check that address in your browser address bar does not start with flex.twilio.com.
- Create a list of all domains on which you plan to run Flex, so you can ask to enable access for all of them at once. Do not forget development, staging and testing instances.
- Email our support at support@twilio.com with a request to enable access to from the domains you have collected. Provide support with account SIDs associated with every domain you need to allow.
- Wait for confirmation that your domains are allowed to access Historical Reporting.
After these steps are completed you can take advantage of Historical Reporting programmability.
Local Development
When embedding Historical Reporting into you customized Flex you might need to access Historical Reporting from localhost. We do not enable CORS to access Historical Reporting from localhost as it poses a security risk. To enable rapid prototyping and development on your local machine you need to run a local proxy service.
To make development as easy as possible, we have built our own proxy server that you can easily run locally. The package can be run with npx @twilio/flex-ui-dev-proxy . Out of the box it runs on localhost:8081, but both host and port can be configured. Please refer to the README.md for more details.
Using the Proxy in your own stack
While running the proxy as a separate process is recommended, it is possible to import just the express middleware or webpack proxy configuration object from the package, so that you can use it in your own stack. Please refer to the README.md for more information.
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