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RSS Feeds

The RSS Feed app lets you include any standards compliant RSS feed into your page. This is convenient to pull in news from news sources that are not available in the News Article app. But obviously you can pull in all kinds of feed data, like traffic reports, sports, financial, local and federal government updates, etc. The logo to the right is commonly used to identify an RSS feed.

Properties

You can configure the app using the following properties:

PropertyExplanation
Web address of RSSCopy the web address (URL) of the RSS feed in here.
Refresh icon(Re)load the feed and display the next article or start running the ticker.
Source only accessible within my networkUse this to have your computer and playback device access the RSS feed directly and not through our servers. It’s important that the server where the feed is hosted has the right CORS configuration. Contact us for assistance with this method.
Maximum age of articlesThe messages on your screen will never be older than what you select here.
StyleSets the way you like your articles to be displayed: As a single message, As a ticker, As a vertical ticker
Note: When the app style is set to “single message”, each time the page is shown during playback, the app advances to the next available article.
Include contentUnselect to only see the titles of the messages.
Include image(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) Let’s you indicate if you also want to display an embedded image (if present) and if so where: above the text, in the top left of the body text or in the top right of the body text.
Fixed image height(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) If you selected to include an image, this lets you reserve a fixed space for that image to better retain your layout.
Article style(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) Sets the way you like individual articles to be displayed:With a transparent backgroundIn a box with rounded cornersIn a box with straight corners
Background color(Only for “Rounded box” or “Rectangular box” article style) Set the background color of a single article box.
Transparency(Only for “Rounded box” or “Rectangular box” article style) Set the background transparency of a single article box.
Scroll speed(Only for “Ticker” style) Set the desired scroll speed of the ticker.
Skip page when this app is emptyWhen enabled, the page this app is on will be skipped during playback when this app has no data to show.

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