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What is an RSS panel?

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

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Adding an RSS panel

To add an RSS panel, click on the 

After selecting the RSS panel button, the mouse pointer changes into a white crosshair pointer, indicating that the designer is ready to draw your panel. Click and hold your left mouse button, starting at the point defining the upper-left corner of your new panel. Whilst still holding down the left mouse button, drag the marquee that will appear to the point that will define the lower-right corner of your panel, as shown below:

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Customising an RSS panel

To customize an RSS panel, click on the Image Added toolbar button to switch to panel selection mode. Hover your mouse pointer over the label panel you want to customise and click on the Image Added icon, when it appears towards the top-right corner of the panel, as shown below:

The RSS panel properties window will open, containing the following tabs:

Content

The

If the entry is valid, the title of the RSS feed will appear in the RSS title field. Click on theAdd button to add this feed to your RSS panel, as shown below:

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

Follow the same procedure to add multiple RSS feeds to your panel.

Reordering RSS feeds

If 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 

Deleting an RSS feed

To delete an RSS feed from the panel, click on the 

Appearance

The 

Article title

Apply any styling properties,such as font size, font style or text colour, if you want to change the appearance of your article title.

Article description

Apply any styling properties, such as font size, font style or text colour, if you want to change the appearance of your article description.

Bullet point

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.

Background

The

The two examples below show the difference between panels with and without lighting effects.

Metrics

The Metrics tab allows you to define the shape of the panel, by entering values for its position and size. You can also choose the refresh rate of the page, by entering a value in the

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RSS panel - overview video

For a live demonstration of how to design and customise an RSS panel, watch the video below:

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