<h2>How do I add an RSS panel?</h2>
<p>To add an RSS panel, click on the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/panel_type_button.png" /> button and then select the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel.png" /> button, as shown below:</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/add_rss_panel_1.png" alt="Add RSS panel" />
<p>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.</p>
<p>Simply drag your mouse across the screen and you can size the panel as you can see in below:</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/add_rss_panel_2.png" alt="Add RSS panel" />
<h2>How do I customise my RSS panel?</h2>
<p>To customize your RSS panel, click on the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/pointer_button.png" /> button on the top left hand side of the screen.
Then click on the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/nut_button.png" /> icon of the panel that you want to customise, as shown below:</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/add_rss_panel_3.png" alt="Add RSS panel" />
<p>The following screen will appear:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_1.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<h4>Content</h4>
<p>First you will need to add an RSS feed. To do this, simply type in the URL in the <span class="reference">RSS Url</span> panel e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rss, as shown below:</p>
<p>Next, check if the feed is valid by pressing the <span class="button">Check</span> button. If it is valid, the RSS title will appear in the <span class="reference">RSS title</span> field.</p>
<p>Now all you have to do is press the <span class="button">Add</span> button to add this feed to your RSS panel, as below:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_2.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>By default, this will appear in your RSS panel as follows:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_3.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<h6>Re-ordering RSS feeds</h6>
<p>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
<img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/order_button.png" /> 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 <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/up_arrow_button.png" /> icon alongside the BBC News feed to move it a level up.</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_4.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>This will appear in your RSS panel as follows:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_5.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<h6>Deleting an RSS feed</h6>
<p>To delete an RSS feed from the RSS panel, just click on the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/delete_button.png" /> icon alongside the feed that you want to delete.</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_6.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<h4>Appearance</h4>
<p>Its RSS feed consists of the article title, the article description and the bullet point as shown in the image below:</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_description.png" alt="RSS panel description" />
<p>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 <span class="button">Appearance</span> tab. This will appear as follows:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_7.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<h6>Changing Font properties</h6>
<p>To edit the appearance of either the <span class="reference">Article title</span> or <span class="reference">Article description</span> 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 <span class="button">Apply</span> button to apply the colour, as shown below:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_8.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>If you would like the text to appear as bold, italic or underlined, simply click on the required box to highlight
<img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/text_formatting_1.png" />.</p>
<p>To determine the placement of your text, simply click on <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/text_formatting_2.png" />.</p>
<h6>Changing Bullet point properties</h6>
<p>To use an image rather than a plain colour as your bullet point, simply type the location of the image into the <span class="reference">Image source</span> box. You can also define the width of the image in pixels.</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_9.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>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:</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_10.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>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.</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_bullet_example.png" alt="RSS bullet point example" />
<h4>Background</h4>
<p>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 <span class="reference">Image source</span> field blank.</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_11.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>If you would like to apply lighting effects to the RSS panel, just tick the box as shown here:</p>
<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_panel_properties_12.png" alt="RSS panel properties" />
<p>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.</p>
<img class="screenshot naked" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_plus/rss_lighting_example.png" alt="RSS lighting effect example" /> |