How can I display news from our public website on our intranet?

(Nat) #1

**Matrix Version:**5.3.4.2

Hi,

I want the most recent news item on our public website to automatically display on our intranet corporate news page whenever news is added to our public website but I’m not sure what’s the best way to do this.

Currently, both the internal and external news pages are setup similarly as asset listings.

This is our external news page: http://www.planning.tas.gov.au/news

The point of the exercise is to (1) alert staff when news is added to the public site and (2) automate the update of our intranet when this happens.

I’ve attempted to add a remote content asset to our intranet but haven’t been able to get it to work. I’m not sure if it’s a firewall issue or my setup, which is likely given I’m new to matrix and my IT experience is limited.

I’m currently a backend user with some admin privileges, but have been tasked with improving our intranet which is woefully out-of-date and under-utilised.

At this stage, I’m really just looking for a point in the right direction or advice on whether this is possible for this particular scenario plus any useful tips.

Thanks,
Nat

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #2

Welcome to the forums natp.

When we’ve done similar in the past, it’s been with a public but not promoted public asset listing that compiles the html to be included within the intranet based on the news items. The listing remains publicly accessible if you know the address and the intranet just includes the content from the public url.

(Nat) #3

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for replying. Can you elaborate a little further though?? I’m not clear on your setup.

Do you mean you are creating an asset listing within your intranet with public read permission that uses the URL of an external site in place of an asset ID???

Or am I way off the mark there??

Cheers,
Nat

(Bart Banda) #4

There are several ways of doing this, but it all depends on what is possible in your environment.

Unless you are happy with a sort of iframe solution, then making sure your Intranet Matrix server can talk to the outside (or wherever your Internet server is located) is the first hurdle to get through. You will need to contact whoever is responsible for managing your Intranet server to see if they can open up this kind of access.

Once you know that, then you can start looking into a smaller list of possible solutions.

For example, if the servers can talk to each other, you could create a RSS/XML/JSON feed from your Internet page to your Intranet page and list the items that way using a RSS data source and asset listing, for example: https://matrix.squiz.net/tutorials/2016/how-to-create-an-rss-data-source-listing

(Nat) #5

Thanks Bart. I’ll follow that up.