The rss plugin

Author: Michael Markstaller

Available since: 2011

Description

This plugins displays RSS-Feeds in the CometVisu.

<rss src="/visu/plugins/rss/rsslog.php" refresh="300" link="false" title="false"></rss>
<rss src="http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2" refresh="300">Test API</rss>
<rss src="/visu/plugins/rss/tagesschau-rss2.xml" refresh="300" header="true" date="true"></rss>

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Pages and structure of CometVisu.

The behaviour and appearance of the rss plugins can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ….. are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the rss-element

Element	Attribute
	Name	Content	Description
rss	src	string
	width	dimension (number+unit)
	height	dimension (number+unit)
	refresh	integer
	limit	integer
	header	true or false
	date	true or false
	content	true or false
	snippet	true or false
	showerror	true or false
	ssl	true or false
	linktarget	_new, _blank or _self
	link	true or false
	title	true or false

Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements and their attributes

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
rss layout	colspan	decimal	Amount of columns this widget should be wide.
	colspan-m	decimal	Overrules the amount of columns on a medium screen.
	colspan-s	decimal	Overrules the amount of columns on a small screen.
	rowspan	decimal	Amount of rows this widget should be high.
	x	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages.
	x-s	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	x-m	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	y	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages.
	y-s	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	y-m	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	z	string	Reserved for future use.
	width	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages.
	width-s	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	width-m	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	scale	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages (default: true).
	scale-s	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a small screen (default: true).
	scale-m	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a medium screen (default: true).

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
rss label icon	name	string	Name of the icon registration.
	type	string
	flavour	string	Selection of a display variant. See also Flavour.
	color	string	Color of the icon in CSS notation (e.g. #1188FF).
	styling	string	Change the color of the displayed value depending on its value. See also Styling
	class	string	Add this value to the CSS class so that it can be formatted by a user provided style sheet.
rss label #text		string	Text to display a label for the widget.

Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the rss plugin.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes

[1]

The simple view might not show everything. To see all elements/attributes use the expert view.