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AMX InspiredSignage XPress Programming Guide
Special News templates
To simplify the creation of dynamic content, XPress is provided with a set of active templates that can be
customized by the user and that perform specific actions. The active templates use JavaScript for dynamic
creation of SVG documents with specific graphical layouts and up-to-date content.
In particular in this section, we discuss a number of active templates we have developed to retrieve RSS
content. We call these templates news templates.
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news
headlines, and podcasts. RSS documents are XML documents with specific structures and tags which can be
retrieved from the Internet or other network locations. The news templates instruct the IS-SPX-1000 player to
extract from remote RSS files the “content” and apply a customizable graphical layout which may include the
text positions in the scene, the font properties, the background image and the animation of each element of the
scene.
A few examples of templates are suggested that display the text on the screen according to predefined
graphical layouts. All the templates can be found under the My Templates/ folder after XPress installation. The
templates are split into two categories: The layout templates and the format helpers.
Composing a live news document
To compose a live news document:
1. Copy the news template SVG file from My Templates/News into your project.
2. Open a new exploring tab of your current project in the browsing panel.
3. Open an additional exploring tab located in My Templates/News.
4. Drag and drop the template file you have chosen from the news tab into your current project tab.
5. Open the newly created SVG file. Select your news source using the RSS Feed Source entry. Type the
URL of the RSS news to use an external news feed.
6. Customize the display of your news source:
Press the Edit button.
Move or resize the text/media box in the preview panel as desired.
Edit the text box content. The [SPX][title] and [SPX][description] will be replaced by the content
of the RSS news.
Add news text or media boxes using the Layer tab.
The same template can also use XML, Text, CSV or iCalendar files as data source.
Layout Templates
Template Name Description
news.svg Display news from RSS, XML, Text, CSV or iCalendar in a formatted manner.
Supports single or multiple items per page.
news_ticker.svg Display news text in a scrolling banner (left/right or top/bottom).
news_crawler.svg Display formatted news using scrolling (left/right or top/bottom). Can be used to
display logo/media in a ticker or multiline tickers.
Format Helpers
Helper Name Description
bouncing_text.svg Text too large to be displayed will 'bounce' left to right or top to bottom
fit_text.svg Text size will adapt to the area available.
date_time.svg Display a date/time in a formatted manner.
switch.svg Display different media depending on the item content.
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