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If, however, you wish to have control over which features in the contextual

geography are published, then un-tick the checkbox ‘Use all features that

overlap the base geography’. You can now either leave the default of all

features selected or select a subset of features.

The tabs ‘Coord. System’ and ‘Encoding’ work in the same was as

described in section ‘B.3.2.2. Layer Properties of Base Geography Layers’.

When you have made your choices, click the ‘OK’ button. Alternatively,

click the ‘Cancel’ button to cancel your changes.

B.3.4.3. GeoRSS Feeds as Contextual Layers

If you wish to include a GeoRSS feed as a contextual layer into your Flash

report you can do this by clicking the ‘Add’ button and selecting the

‘GeoRSS Connection’ option (Figure 36).

Figure 36

Then type the link to the GeoRSS feed into the URL field (Figure 37).

Figure 37

If you wish to change the layer name, border width or fill opacity of the

layer you can do this by clicking on the ‘Properties’ button. Please ignore

the ‘Icon File’ property since this is not supported for GeoRSS feeds.

GeoRSS Feeds are structured in XML format, usually providing a <title>

tag and a <content>, <summary> or <description> tag for each geographic

feature.

If labels get activated using the Designer (see section C. The InstantAtlas

Designer, subsection C.4.3.6. Map Properties) it will show the value of the

<title> tag for each entry of the GeoRSS as a label. If tooltips get activated

the value of the <content>, <summary> or <description> tag will appear. If

none of these three is available, the report will show the value of the <title>

tag also in the tooltip. Tooltips of GeoRSS layers can be made “sticky” by

simply clicking with the left mouse key when the tooltip is visible. That way

it is possible to follow links within the tooltip.

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To add multiple contextual layers click the ‘Add’ button again and choose

either the ‘Digital Map File’ option or the ‘GeoRSS Connection’ depending

on what kind of contextual layer you wish to add. For any contextual layer,

you can click the red cross to delete it at any time. You can use the

It is currently not possible to include GeoRSS Feeds into reports

published with an HTML template.