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Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties
however, the presentation will fail to display any content if it is published in this state.
• Url: Enter the web address of the RSS or MRSS feed into this field. If you want the presentation to retrieve a
feed from an RSS formatted text file on the SD card, use the “file:///path” URL format (e.g. “file:///filename.xml”).
• Live Data Feed: If you have a BrightSign Network subscription, you can easily publish RSS feeds to the
BrightSign Network servers. See the Live Text FAQ for instructions for creating RSS feeds in the BrightSign
Network Web UI and using them in BrightAuthor.
• Dynamic Playlist: If you have a BrightSign Network subscription, you can use Dynamic Playlists as Data
Feeds.
• Download content specified in data feed: Check this box to have the player download and store media files
specified of the Data Feed. You can then playback the media files using a Media List or Play File state. Each
media item must be specified as a download URL in a separate Value field of the BSN Data Feed (or the
<description> fields of an RSS feed).
• Refresh: If you have recently created or renamed Dynamic Playlists or Live Text feeds using the BrightSign
Network, click this button to update the content in the Live Data Feed and Dynamic Playlist dropdown lists.
• Validate: Click this button to ping the web address you entered in the Url, Live Data Feed, or Dynamic
Playlist field. Use this feature to check whether you entered the address of your RSS feed correctly.
• Update Interval: Use the dropdown list to specify how often you want the content of an RSS feed to be
refreshed using the provided URL.
• Plugin Script: This is an advanced feature: You may optionally choose to have the RSS feed parsed by a piece
of customized BrightScript code. This occurs after the feed is retrieved from the network and before it is
provided to Live Text and other presentation features. To add a plugin, specify the location of the file that
contains the BrightScript code by clicking the Browse button.
Note: The parser file must have a .brs extension.
• Parser Function Name: Enter the name of the subroutine that parses the RSS feed.