Live Text Data with XML / RSS

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This page / section pertains to BrightAuthor Classic, our legacy app. BrightSign Author is our latest app for managing content and players.

Development of BrightAuthor Classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightSign Author.

BrightSign based the XML format of Live Text Data on an RSS feed: This is a simplified XML file with support for “Title” and “Description” tags. Each field will display the contents of the “Description” tag. You can select an item to be displayed based on its name (Item title) or its index number in the file (Item index) and use the RSS format to build the source Data Feed. See the example screenshot and RSS feed below.

Example

To display “$3.99”, you can either:

Use the Item Description radio button and enter “HotDogPrice” as the title.
Select the Item Index radio button and specify number 2 since "HotDogPrice" is the second item

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Sample List File </title>
    <description>This is an example of an live text feed file</description>
    <ttl>1800</ttl>
    <item>
      <title>Item 1</title>
      <description>Hot Dogs</description>
    </item> 
    <item>
      <title>HotDogPrice</title>
      <description>$3.99</description>
    </item>
</channel>
 </rss>