RSS widgets

This page is about the RSS data-driven widgets included into Elementi 2016 or later. For older versions, see the links below.

Introduction

The RSS widgets can be used to display content syndicated through RSS (Rich Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) feeds provided by different publishers.

RSS feeds are commonly used to share frequently updated information: news headlines, blog entries, audio, video etc.) and can be easily found on the Internet - for instance, several RSS feeds provided by CNN can be found on http://edition.cnn.com/services/rss/.

RSS widgets

Elementi software comes with several RSS widgets accessible from "Widgets" tab within the Browse panel.

RSS feed widgets

• Text Bar

  Displays text content using a fixed number of lines and applying a bottom-to-top & line-by-line scrolling effect whenever the entire text doesn't fit into the widget area.

• Text Ticker

  Displays text content using a continuous horizontal scrolling effect. The font size is adjusted automatically for the text to fit into the widget area.

• Text Roll

  Displays text content using a continuous vertical scrolling effect. The font size is adjusted automatically for the selected number of lines to fit into the predefined area.

• Media Playlist

  Displays a playlist of media items (images, videos) included into the RSS feed.

• Media Crawler

  Displays the media items (images, videos) included into the RSS feed using a continuous scrolling effect.

• Slideshow

  Displays slides composed of text & media layers, which are automatically filled out with data retrieved from the RSS feed. The slides are displayed one after another, with or without a transition effect in between, similarly to a playlist.

• Horizontal Table, Vertical Table, and Table

  Displays slides composed of multiple cells of text & media layers, which are automatically filled out with data retrieved from the RSS feed. The slides are displayed one after another, with or without a transition effect in between, similarly to a playlist.

Note:

Any formatting present within the RSS feed is discarded (the RSS standard is not designed for formatting, but for carrying plain text) - you can customize how the text appears on the screen within Elementi.

Configuration

Each of the widgets above can be customized using the options provided under "Properties" tab - for more details, go to the dedicated page of each widget type, linked above.

Data Properties

To edit the properties related to the data source, click on the button. This opens the "Data Properties" dialog, which allows changing the following:

• URI

  Enter the URI from where the data is retrieved. This can be a local path into the project or a remote HTTP(S) address.

• Refresh

  Enter a number, optionally followed by s (implicit), m or h, to specify the period after which the widget should refresh the feed data (this is useful especially when the widget is running in a loop); the minimum accepted value is 10 seconds. Using "When document opens" will refresh the data only when the document is re-opened.

• Limit

  Enable this option and specify the maximum number of items (rows) to be kept from the data set (starting from the first row).

Note:

At any point, the data source configuration can be tested by clicking on the "Test..." button.

Troubleshooting

• Multiscreen usage.

  These widgets can only be used on a single screen when creating a multiscreen project; for multiple screens, a data feed widget must be used instead.

See also

• Elementi 2018 Widgets, Elementi 2017 Widgets, Elementi 2016 Widgets
• Data feeds
• Data-driven widgets
• RSS widgets in Elementi 2015
• RSS widgets in Elementi 3.x
• How to add a text ticker displaying news from the Internet, syndicated via RSS