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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 
icon, when it appears towards the top-left right corner of the screen, then select the icon to customise the panel, as shown below:
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Follow the same procedure to add multiple RSS feeds To add another RSS feed to your panel, follow the same procedure as described above.
Reordering RSS feeds
If you your RSS panel contains more than one RSS feed, you can change the order that they will appear on your display board, by clicking on the
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Apply any styling properties, such as font size, font style or text colour, if you want to change the appearance of the article your article title, e.g font size, font style or text colour etc.
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| Image source | To use an image rather than a plain colour as your bullet point, enter its source here; the path is relative to the folder on disk from which the web content is served, and is different for each class of web user; the background colour should be set as Transparent, so it does not interfere with your image. |
| Width | Define the width of the image, in pixels. |
| Background colour | If you don't want to use an image as your bullet point, you can select a background colour. |
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 specific width.
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| Image source | If you want your panel to display an image, type its source here. Remember, the path is relative to the folder on disk from which the web content is served, and is different for each class of web user. |
| 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 | 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.
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You should It is recommended that you check with the RRS RSS feed provider that they are happy for you to use their feed. |
Metrics
The Metrics tab allows you to define the shape of the panel, by entering values for its position and size. You can are also choose given the refresh rate for the paneloption to determine the refresh frequency of the page, by entering a value in the Referencemacro
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When you have finished configuring the properties of your RSS panel, click on the button to apply the changes.
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For a live demonstration of how to design and customise an RSS panel, watch the video below:
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