RSS Datasource issue

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi guys


I’m trying to grab a news feed from a site built in Joomla. The site owner has sent me a link to the RSS feed, but it doesn’t have a xml extension of such, so when I try to use the feed URL he sent through (http://www.worksafenews.com.au/news/itemlist/?format=feed&feed=full) I get an error. Does anyone know how to render these kind of URL’s so I can use as a datasource?



Cheers

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The content and the url of the news feed itself is fine, I can put the contents of it elsewhere and consume it via Matrix RSS feed. What I found when I looked on 2 different matrix servers and did a wget on the url is that the remote server is returning 403 forbidden. I'm not sure what the conditions are that the remote server is making that decision, but making it even more odd I can do a wget from my local desktop and get the content of it without issue.


The issue appears most likely to be the remote server, I'd find out from the site owner why it's returning a 403.


    
    http://www.worksafenews.com.au/news/itemlist/?format=feed
    Resolving www.worksafenews.com.au... 98.129.229.225
    Connecting to www.worksafenews.com.au|98.129.229.225|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
    2012-10-12 10:28:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
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Thanks Anthony, I've sent you're response to the news site developer.


Quick question, I know you're a easy edit suite (EES) specialist, is it possible for me to build three different EES layouts on the same website? I want to leave the original EES, but add a new one for the HR people to list jobs, and a new one so that a department here can manage a folder full of assets (images, word docs)? I'd like to style them to suit purpose i.e. the HR one would only have access to a job listing folder, then the layout of EES would have fields for "job title", "job description", and a document upload function. I'd also adjust the meta schema as required. If it is possible, do you know of any good tutorials? thanks again.

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I'd be assuming you want to use the same core EES and add different customisation. You can achieve this by creating different design customisations and pointing the 'nested content ees' design area to a different asset (basically configure a new standard page containing the new scripts/css for each one). We actually do this on our development systems so we can test minified code versions, or additional features that we develop on the same systems. The design customisations would be the key.

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Thanks for your help with the RSS feed Anthony, is there a way creating the list so when I click on the news title, I can display the contents of each record on a page on my website, instead of linking to the RSS provider website?


Cheers

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You could link to another asset listing that has the same configuration but is displayed to show only 1 result at a time (showing the contents of the page). Then use a link like:

    
    
    %ds__title%


This kind of setup is very sensitive to both asset listings being in 'sync'. Basically the listing parameters should be identical, only differing with the pagination and the type format contents.

I don't know of any other way to do this simply because those assets don't actually exist in Matrix, they are shadow assets.
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That's brilliant Anthony, works and absolute treat. Cheers