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10/10/2006 2:46 PM
 

Is it possible to assign pages to two (or even more) different portals (parent or child) at the same time?

The background for this:
Two related portals, let's call them A and B, "http://www.a.com/" and "http://www.b.com/", have some common pages. If I make independent page copies for each site, I have to maintain them twice, which is double work and will probably cause inconsistencies sooner or later.

Sure, I could create all the common pages in portal A, and make the corresponding pages in B links to the pages in A, but this would irritate the visitors of B, because the navigation of B is then replaced by the one of A, and, after all, I want to keep the visitors in B, and they should think that they're looking at B's own content!

Sounds quite tricky to me (but I'm a DNN newbie...). So, if someone of you has done something similar, I  would be thankful for any hint!

 
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10/10/2006 4:23 PM
 
Are these portals running off of the same DNN install? If so, download the free Inventua Shadow module at http://www.inventua.com/dnn-shadow.content . What this module does is it makes read-only "shadow" modules of existing modules that reside on different pages or portals. When you update the info in portal A, the shadow module in portal B displays the same info. I've been playing around with this module, and have been able to share info between pages in the same portal, as well as between a parent and a child portal.
 
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10/10/2006 6:27 PM
 

PixelNinja is correct - however, I would like to also let you know that it does not work with every module.

For example - Any module that extends use in the *module settings* area, will not work, becuase you can't see the settings only the shadow settings.

I ran into problems with a few modules which, use the settings, and by default lay the module out differently- eg.. information displayed horizontally or vertically, or paging, which uses the settings area to do this, made this module not suitable to use.

But for standard html inclusion, it's very good.

Nina Meiers


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11/3/2006 12:22 PM
 
Thanks for the clarification, nina. Good stuff.

Another thing that we've done to share info between portals is buy the NukeNews and NukeFeeds modules from Orizonti. The NukeNews module allows for export of an RSS feed of the articles you've created, and the NukeFeeds module allows for the aggregation of multiple feeds from anywhere. If the format of the info you want to share is news articles, then this setup might help.
 
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