RSS panel

What is an RSS panel

An RSS panel will allow you to send a live RSS feed to your display board. The example below shows an RSS panel displayed at the bottom of a board.

How do I add an RSS panel?

To add an RSS panel, float over the button and then click on the button, as shown below:

The list of panels types available immediately disappears and a blank screen will appear with the white cross-like pointer sign indicating where the panel will begin on the screen.

Simply drag your mouse across the screen and you can size the panel as you can see in below:

SELECTING PROPERTIES FOR RSS PANEL

To edit the RSS panel properties, click on the button on the top left-hand side of the screen. Then click on the to access the panel properties as shown below:

However you can add an image source as the background and either choose to have that image centered in the panel or repeated by typing in details as shown below:

The following screen will appear:

First you will need to add an RSS feed. To do this, simply type in the URL in the RSS Url panel e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rss as shown below:

Next, check that the feed is valid by pressing the Check button. If it is valid, the RSS title will appear in the RSS title field as shown below:

Now all you have to do is press the Add button to add this feed to your RSS panel. It will then appear as follows:

By default, this will appear in your RSS panel as follows:

To change the appearance of this feed in you panel, select the appearance panel. This will appear as follows:

To edit the appearance of either the article title or article description simply change the font's family and style as shown below:

Changing Font properties

Choose the font size you would like to use by simply selecting from the drop-down list as shown here:

Choose the style of font you would like to use from the drop-down font family list.

To select the text colour, click on the drop-down arrow . This will show the colour palette 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 add the RGB colours to add to your custom palette. You need to click on the Apply button to apply the colour.

If you would like text to appear as bold, italic or underlined, simply click on the required box to highlight as shown below:

Note that you can select more than one option if required e.g. bold and italic and underlined.

If determine the placement, simply click on one of the options shown below:

Changing the properties for your bullet point:

To use an image rather than a plain colour as your bullet point, simply type the location of the image into the 'Image source' box. You can also define the width of the image in pixels.

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:

Press the Apply and Save buttons to save.

Changing the background on the RSS panel

By default the background of the RSS panel is black with a lighting effect.

However you can add an image source as the background and either choose to have that image centered in the panel or repeated by typing in details as shown below:

NB: Please check with the RRS feed provider that they are happy for you to use their feed. Most RSS providers will state quite clearly whether they are happy for you to use the feed and how it should be used.

e.g. For more information on using BBC feeds, please go to the following website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm

Setting metrics for RSS Panel

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 back to a different size or by changing the number of pixels in to define the panel size.

You can also choose the refresh rate for the panel by entering the required article refresh rate for the panel as shown below.