Information to display
RSS feeds contain a title and description. You can choose to display either display the TITLE, DESCRIPTION or TITLE AND DESCRIPTION. If you create your own RSS feeds for your business, you may just want to display a title, rather than splitting information to display into title and description. News feeds from websites, such as the BBC, will contain both.
News items sort order
An RSS feed will usually have several news items. Ones from Internet news sites can often have around 100. You can choose to display the news items by LAST UPDATE TIME, TITLE or DESCRIPTION. The DESC and ASC is the sort order, i.e. descending or ascending. Ordering by LAST UPDATE TIME, DESC, will show the newest news items first.
Render type
There are two main formats of RSS feed: RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0. RSS 2.0 is used on many sites, including the BBC website, and the title and description of news items are usually in plain text (but not always). Some sites use ATOM 1.0, which allows the description to be in HTML, which is the language that website pages are made up in. This allows mixed fonts and even images to put in news items. ATOM 1.0 don't always use HTML for the description. You basically have two options here, RTF (Rich Text Format) or HTML (the website page language). The RTF rendering takes less resources in Repeat Signage and this is the recommended one. However, if your newsfeed is in ATOM 1.0 format and contains HTML, then you will need to use HTML rendering instead.
There are 4 render types available:
RTF AUTOMATIC - This displays the title and description on separate lines and you can specify the title font, title colour, description font and description colour using the buttons that appear when you select this option. The preview is updated as soon as you use any of the buttons.
RTF MANUAL - This displays an RTF (Rich Text Format) text box on screen with <RSS_TITLE> and <RSS_DESCRIPTION> where the title and description of news items will be put. This allows you to customise how the text will appear. You can change the font sizes and colours on the title and description, combine the lines into a single line, or even add a title such as 'News' on a line above.
HTML AUTOMATIC - This displays the title and description on separate lines and you can specify the title font, title colour, description font and description colour using the buttons that appear when you select this option. The preview is updated as soon as you use any of the buttons. Repeat Signage uses a web browser to display this, so if the description is in ATOM HTML format, then it is displayed on screen correctly.
HTML MANUAL - This displays the HTML text box on screen with <RSS_TITLE> and <RSS_DESCRIPTION> where the title and description of news items will be put. The code is for users with website design experience as you have to manually type in HTML code. This allows you to customise how the text will appear. You can change the font sizes and colours on the title and description, combine the lines into a single line, or even add a title such as 'News' on a line above. Repeat Signage uses a web browser to display this, so if the description is in ATOM HTML format, then it is displayed on screen correctly.
Style
You have the following choice of styles:
CHARACTERS - This displays each news item one character at a time for each letter in the title then continues onto the description.
WORDS - This displays each news item one word at a time for each word in the title then continues onto the description.
SLIDING - Displays the news items from left to right.
PLAYLIST - Display each news items, but just changing to the next one.
SCROLLING - Scrolls each item onto screen, pauses and then displays the next one. You can use the 'Scroll direction' box to choose either 'RIGHT TO LEFT', 'LEFT TO RIGHT', 'TOP TO BOTTOM' or 'BOTTOM TO TOP'.
Pause between items
When your news item is fully displayed on screen, then this value determines how long it is displayed before the next news item starts. 2 or 3 seconds is normal. You can enter minutes, seconds and milliseconds (1/1000 of second). The minimum value is 500ms (half a second).
RSS news feeds on the Internet
See our RSS feed list for RSS news website.