RSS Feed in Storyline
May 20, 2014
By
sonia omar
Hello everyone,
I'm in a soup and need advise. We're trying to come out with a solution via which we can provide a link for dynamic content to our learner through a media site.
For example - we have a button in our course called Trending Information - we click it and it takes us to the NEW YORK TIMES - and we get to see articles displayed for us - based on specified search criteria provided in our courses. Is this possible? RSS feeds? ANYTHING?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
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Not entirely sure I got the drift, but I have a couple of examples that might be useful. First one is dynamic so the user inputs and it comes up with the content in the website you want, the second is a fixed search.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-stage.storyline.articulate.com/stp18of2frjjqavin713v71su913d94/story.html
Just looked the search results that come up cover the next arrow slightly but it still functions.
Is this the sort of thing you're after?
@Alex I'm just getting xml code and not your content when I open that link in Chrome
@Sonia You could use a web object to bring that content into your course or another option for RSS is to use a tool like http://feed.mikle.com/ or www.tintup.com which lets you customize how the RSS feed info is displayed and use the embed code in your course via a web object.
Thank you so much for your inputs Mike and Alex.
Here's what I did myself - provided a trigger on the RSS button to open a new page which shows RSS feeds. What I need to do is filter it. Let's say currently it shows all financial feeds for the day - what if I want to filter it by some keywords or terms? Is there a way to do that? Any ideas? I'm looking at RSS filters but they all talk about an OPML file which goes with your outlook - basically email filters. Any such RSS filter which can filter inside the course?
P.S: I know nothing of javascript
There are some free online tools like this one that allow you filter the contents of an RSS feed by adding terms that you want to include/exclude. Maybe that gets you a little closer to what you're hoping for?
http://www.feedrinse.com/
I actually tried that last night, Mike. It exports an OPML file and I dont quite know how to get that into Storyline and play. Any ideas?
I think you might need to use a combination of the RSS filtering tool (Feedrinse) and something allows you to embed the contents of that (like http://feed.mikle.com/ ) . I think you can create a generic html page and place the embed code in to that. Then include that html page in Storyline as a web object.
HMMM....Interesting! Let me try that out. Thanks Mike!
So this is the link I get after filtering the RSS feed:document.write('');(function() {var params = {rssmikle_url: "http://www.feedrinse.com/services/rinse/?rinsedurl=9f12307a63c4518e778bce44c50b4b35",rssmikle_frame_width: "720",rssmikle_frame_height: "540",rssmikle_target: "_top",rssmikle_font: "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",rssmikle_font_size: "12",rssmikle_border: "on",responsive: "on",rssmikle_css_url: "",text_align: "left",corner: "off",autoscroll: "off",scrolldirection: "up",scrollstep: "3",mcspeed: "20",sort: "New",rssmikle_title: "on",rssmikle_title_sentence: "",rssmikle_title_link: "",rssmikle_title_bgcolor: "#FF0000",rssmikle_title_color: "#FFFFFF",rssmikle_title_bgimage: "",rssmikle_item_bgcolor: "#FFFFFF",rssmikle_item_bgimage: "",rssmikle_item_title_length: "55",rssmikle_item_title_color: "#666666",rssmikle_item_border_bottom: "on",rssmikle_item_description: "on",rssmikle_item_description_length: "150",rssmikle_item_description_color: "#666666",rssmikle_item_date: "off",rssmikle_timezone: "Etc/GMT",datetime_format: "%b %e, %Y %l:%M:%S %p",rssmikle_item_description_tag: "off",rssmikle_item_description_image_scaling: "off",rssmikle_item_podcast: "off"};feedwind_show_widget_iframe(params);})();
What's the correct way to insert it in storyline? Thanks so much for all your support!
You can copy & paste the embed code into a blank .html document and name it index.html Then insert that as a local web object. (Click on the folder icon instead of entering a url and then browse to the folder that contains the index.html file)
Here is what mine looked like:
And when inserted into Storyline as a web object:
Judging by the Mikes input to the thread I was off the drift, strange the link didn't work though - here it is
Thanks Mike! Got it
Awesome! So glad to hear it!
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