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Introduction to External Sources

In the Content Hub you can have multiple external sources. These can be used to pull in content from other sources to use them in your Content Hub. This way you can keep your content up to date and diverse for your audience.

You can use RSS feeds, JSON feeds or connect to other sources like SharePoint, Facebook, X, Instagram and so on. Additional configuration on our end is required to connect to Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn. Contact our support at techsupport@netpresenter.com if you would like to set these up.

Using Webpage Snapshot

In your Content Hub go to Settings > External Sources. And create a new External Source.

Select the connection type Webpage Snapshot

Set the URL

A good example of a Webpage Snapshot is local traffic information or a Statistics dashboard from a reporting system. Start by adding the Name of the feed and the URL, click on Validate & Preview to get an example of the webpage. Click Save

Next, set your update interval time. And if needed you can add a transformation to cut of a menubar for instance.

Now once you go to create your message you can select the image from the Asset Library. You can recognise the External Source images by the refresh icon.