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An RSS panel will allow allows you to send a live RSS feed to your display board. The example below shows an RSS panel displayed at the bottom of the board.
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To customize an RSS panel, click on the 
toolbar button to switch to panel selection mode. Hover your mouse pointer over the label panel you want to customise and click on the 
Image Added icon, when it appears towards the top-left right corner of the screen, then select the Image Removed icon to customise the panel, as shown below:
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The
tab allows you to add the URL
for of your RSS feed, e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rss.
Check if To verify that the feed is valid,
by clicking click on the
Check button.
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If the entry is valid, the title of the RSS title feed will appear in the RSS title field. Click on the Add button to add this feed to your RSS panel, as shown below:
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Following the same procedure, you can add multiple RSS feeds in your RSS panelTo add another RSS feed to your panel, follow the same procedure as described above.
If you your RSS panel contains more than one RSS feed, you can change the order they will appear on your display board, by clicking on the
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icon icons alongside each feed, as shown below:
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To delete an RSS feed from the RSS panel, click on the
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icon
alongside the feed that you want to delete, as shown below:
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The
tab allows you change the look of your RSS feed, by
a amending one or more of the following properties: the article title, the article description and the bullet point, as shown below:
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Article title
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Apply any styling properties
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, if you want to change the appearance of your article title.
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Article description
Apply any styling properties, such as font size, font style or text colour
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Article title
To edit , if you want to change the appearance of either the Article title or Article description change the font's family and style. Choose the style of font you would like to use as well as the font size, by selecting from the drop-down list.
To select the text colour, click on the drop-down arrow as shown below. This will show the colour palate available. To select a standard colour, all you need to do is click on it. To add a custom colour, click on one of the blank custom colour squares and type in the RGB colour codes to add to your custom palette.You will need to click on theApplybutton to set the chosen color.
your article description.
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If you would like the text to appear as bold, italic or underlined, simply click on the required box to highlight 
Image Removed. To determine the placement of your title, simply click on 
Image Removed. At the end, click on theSavebutton to save any changes made.
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| Image source | To use an image rather than a plain colour as your bullet point, |
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| Width | Define the width of the image, in pixels |
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Alternatively, if you just want to change the colour of the bullet point, click on the drop-down arrow. This will show the colour palette available:
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The example below shows two different bullet point implementations of the same RSS feed. On the left, you can see an image as a bullet point, whereas on the right the bullet point is just a coloured rectangle of secific specific width.
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tab
By default allows you to configure the background
properties of
the your RSS panel
is black with a lighting effect.
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| Image style | Choose how the image should be displayed |
| Colour | Choose the background colour of the panel; if you are adding an image, you may want to select Transparent so that this does not interfere with your image |
| Apply lighting effects to this panel |
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| Tick this option to apply a shine effect to the entire panel; if you are using the panel to display an image, this may adversely affect how it appears |
The two examples below show the difference between panels with and without lighting effects. The panel with the slight shine has a lighting effect applied, while the solid black panel has no lighting effects.
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The width and height of the panel containing the RSS feed will be picked up automatically. You can change this by using your mouse to drag this to a different size or by changing the number of pixels to define the panel size.You can also choose the refresh rate for the panel, by filling in the
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When you have finished configuring the properties of your RSS panel, click on the Save button to apply the changes.
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For a live demonstration on of how to design and customise an RSS panel, watch the video below:
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