Creating an RSS News Ticker

RSS is a news feed format that has become widely available. Many newspapers or other content providers can deliver their news in a readable format. Many solutions for corporate intranets can also output RSS feeds to be used for corporate TV.

Read more: RSS - wikipedia.org

RSS ticker object

The RSS ticker object can be found in the Objects tab. When it is drag-and-dropped onto the edit area, a dialog box appears asking for the location (URL) of the RSS. This is all you need to do! The feed will be downloaded on the player every minute and will always be kept up to date.

The RSS ticker object include only the title and description of RSS items.

What you maybe didn't know is that you can also use RSS in other objects, for instance the table object! See the tutorial video below.

If you need to extract custom fields in the RSS feed, or some other more advanced setup, please see below.

Advanced setup

Since the RSS format is text based, including it in a presentation is trivial. However, RSS feeds can include more than just the news. If need be we can use DISE Parser) to process the feed further before including it in our DISE Movie.

DISE Parser is able to download news from multiple RSS feed providers and create custom formatted text files. In addition, it can download the images contained in the feeds. After this processing the RSS news can be used in DISE Composer and DISE Replay, adding design elements.

Read more: Download an RSS feed

The text file produced by Parser is commonly used data connected When the data connection is set to "File exists locally on player (don't transmit)" is ticked, it is assumed that the text file will exist, downloaded or accessible to the player. You have two options regarding getting the players to pick up the feed:

1. Install DISE Parser on every player and import your script.

2. Install DISE Parser on a central player or manager, and have it write to a network share that is then synched to players by Probe.