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, click on the button and then select 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:

How do I customise my RSS panel?

To customize your RSS panel, click on the button on the top left hand side of the screen. Then click on the icon of the panel that you want to customise, as shown below:

The following screen will appear:

Content

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 if the feed is valid by pressing the Check feed button. If it is valid, the RSS title will appear in the RSS title field.

Now all you have to do is press the Add feed button to add this feed to your RSS panel, as below:

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

Re-ordering RSS feeds

You can add as many RSS feeds as you like, following the same process. If you want to change their order, just click on the icon alongside the feed that shows the direction to which you want your RSS feed to move. In the example that follows, we click on the icon alongside the BBC News feed to move it a level up.

This will appear in your RSS panel as follows:

Deleting an RSS feed

To delete an RSS feed from the RSS panel, just click on the icon alongside the feed that you want to delete.

Appearance

Its RSS feed consists of the article title, the article description and the bullet point as shown in the image below:

Consequently, in order to change the appearance of a feed in your panel, you have to change the appearence of these little sections that it cosnists of. To do so, just select the Appearance tab. This will appear as follows:

Changing Font properties

To edit the appearance of either the Article title or Article description simply change the font's family and style. Choose the font size you would like to use by simply selecting from the drop-down list. You can also 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, as shown below:

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

To determine the placement of your text, simply click on .

Changing Bullet point properties

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:

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 width.

Background

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. In that case, you may even want to set a transparent background for your image, as shown below. Alternatively, just pick a colour from the colour palette and leave the Image source field blank.

If you would like to apply lighting effects to the RSS panel, just tick the box as shown here:

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.

 

Metrics

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. At the end, click the Save button to save any changes made.