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RSS Variable extensions

Asked by Pascal Kaegi

Dear all

I have an RSS ticker displayed on my info screens which shows current events in our building. I can display the regular variables ([title][description]etc.) without problems. But when i want to use our extended variables (like<speaker> or <locationdetail> the ckeditor does not recognize it when I just write it in square brackets as i do it with the regular variables.

So can you maybe tell me which control i have to use to get the extended variables working?

thanks a lot in advance

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Only [title] [description] [date] and I think [link] are supported on
the Windows client.

The Linux client will pull any tag that's in the feed.

Alex

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Pascal Kaegi (pascalkaegi) said : 		#2

okay so i'm not able to use any other variables than the standard one's with a windows client? right?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Correct.

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Pascal Kaegi (pascalkaegi) said : 		#4

alright, thanks a lot for your answer. cheers, p

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Richard Williamson (w0h0i6a-2ic6aj5-p7k1qai) said : 		#5

Hello

Sorry to re-open an old question, but I have 1.3.2 installed on an Ubuntu box, but I only seem to be able to access the title/description/date fields from my custom rss feed - www.cvenues.com/events/currentXML.php, other elements appear just as the element name.

It's possible that I have done something silly with my XML creation, but I don't think so. Alternatively I may have to look at whether I can do something with a web plugin, but that slightly defeats the reason I want to use xibo (for a next shows listing for our venues)

Thanks

Richard

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#6

The original answer is inaccurate.

The python client pulls most of the standard RSS tags. You can browse the code to see a complete list:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xibo-maintainers/xibo/faye/view/head:/client/python/plugins/media/TickerMedia.py#L64

Alex