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  • 1.  Crawl

    Posted 08-14-2018 23:19
    Trying to do a RSS feed crawl. Do I need a new scene for each individual item that I plan to show? How can I automatically increment them so that it's always feeding the next item from the RSS feed?


  • 2.  RE: Crawl

    Posted 08-15-2018 00:23
    You only need as many scenes as there might be items visible on screen at one time. So the number you need depends on how long the text of each item will generally be. Usually you only need around 4 scenes or so, unless you are doing a stock ticker then you might need a lot more.

    In each scene you will datalinq to a different row in the RSS. When setting up the datalinq choose an item that isn't the first item in the rss and you will see where it adds a number like <3> or something into the Row/Column field.. Change the number to and then each scene should be , then , then etc.. Leave the "n increment" value in the datalinq at 0.
    When setting up the datalinq config, you need to have the "wrap indices" option enabled.

    When you play it back, the n and n+1 etc get replaced and they will count their way through all the rows of the RSS feed.
    #XPression


  • 3.  RE: Crawl

    Posted 08-16-2018 16:01
    So in the row/column field for each subsequent Scene you need <2>,<3>,<4> ect...and then point to original data source in row? Could you add a couple of screenshots, so it's easier to see exactly what you're doing to have it generate the crawl? I think I'm close but some finer point in the settings I keep missing and I get the same data over and over. I also get the crawl but not my graphical element underneath it for some reason. Thanks!
    #XPression


  • 4.  RE: Crawl

    Posted 08-16-2018 17:53
    No, you use , , .. not <1>,<2>,<3>, etc..

    I'll see if I can get some screenshots later if the above change doesn't help you.
    #XPression


  • 5.  RE: Crawl

    Posted 08-16-2018 17:56