Create Live Data Feeds
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This page / section pertains to BrightSign Network (often abbreviated BSN), our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud. Development of BSN has largely ceased and the platform will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.
BSN allows you to create, edit, and host Live Data feeds within the WebUI. You can use these feeds in the Live Text portion of your BrightAuthor Classic presentations.
- Go to the Live Data section under the Create tab.
- Select Add New Feed.
- Enter a name and select Create.
- Enter a name for your first entry in the Name column.
- In the Value column, enter the text to be displayed in the Live Text field of the presentation.
- Including these characters in your feed will cause an error: < > & " ' # @ % ^ ) (
- If you must included them, host an RSS feed using a third-party service instead.
- Select the grayed fields below the first entry to add another entry. New fields will appear as long as you continue to add entries. Although you can add as many blank entries as you would like, you will not be able to save the feed until all fields have values in them. If you have extra blank entries, you can delete them by clicking the red box to the right of the Value column.
- Click the Save button below the entries. If you would like to rename the Live Text feed, click the Save Feed As… button next to the Save button. A URL address for the feed will then be created.
Now you can use this Live Text feed in your BrightAuthor Classic presentations (see Data Feeds for information on including Live Text elements in your presentation). You can include your Live Text feed in a Live Text State or Ticker Zone or use it to remotely modify Variables.