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Displaying RSS feeds: RSS Reader widget

You can provide an RSS feed on the iPhone and iPad. RSS (Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is a data format used to display updated content from a website. An RSS document is called a feed. It contains either a summary of the content from an associated website or the full text.

The RSS Reader widget allows users to compare data in the dashboard with information from external news feed sources. The widget retrieves news from an RSS news feed and displays it alongside the other components of the dashboard. The RSS feed is automatically reloaded to display the most up-to-date news about a variety of topics that you specify.

You can add an RSS Reader widget to a document, then display the widget when the document is viewed on a mobile device, as shown in the image above. Users can select an RSS feed to display a list of news items, then select an item to display from the list.

Formatting an RSS Reader widget for mobile devices

You can format how the widget is displayed when viewed on the mobile device. For example, you can change the color in which the titles of RSS feeds are displayed, or the background color used for news items that are selected in the widget.

The list below suggests formatting ideas and provides steps to format how an RSS Reader widget is displayed on the mobile device.

Specify the URL of the RSS feed to display in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the General tab, type the URL of the RSS feed in the Default RSS Field. To specify multiple URLs, type ?? between each URL. For example:

    3. http://www.businessweek.com/rss/bwdaily.rss??http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify the title of the RSS feed displayed in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the General tab, type the title of the RSS feed in the RSS Reader Title field. To specify titles for multiple RSS feeds, type ?? between each title. For example, you can type Business??World News to create two RSS feeds, one named Business and the other named World News.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the color in which the titles of RSS feeds are displayed

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the General tab, select a color from the RSS Reader Title Color palette.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the background color of the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the General tab, select a color from the Background Color palette.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the color of the widget's border

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the General tab, select a color from the Border Color palette.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the background color to use to display news items in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsItem tab, select Colors from the first drop-down list.

  3. Select Background from the second drop-down list.

  4. Select a color from the Background color palette.

  5. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the background color displayed for news items when a cursor hovers over the item in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsItem tab, select Colors from the first drop-down list.

  3. Select Rollover Background from the second drop-down list.

  4. Select a color from the Rollover Background color palette.

  5. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the font color to use to display news items in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsItem tab, select Colors from the first drop-down list.

  3. Select Font from the second drop-down list.

  4. Select a color from the Font Color palette.

  5. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the font color to use to display news items when a cursor hovers over the item in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsItem tab, select Colors from the first drop-down list.

  3. Select Rollover Font from the second drop-down list.

  4. Select a color from the Rollover Font Color palette.

  5. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the font color to use for news items that have been read

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsItem tab, select Colors from the first drop-down list.

  3. Select Read Articles from the second drop-down list.

  4. Select a color from the Read Articles color palette.

  5. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the background color to use to display news items that are selected in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsDetail tab, select a color from the Background Color palette.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.

Select the font color to use to display news items that are selected in the widget

  1. In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.

  2. On the NewsDetail tab, select a color from the Font Color palette.

  3. Click OK to apply your changes.