1. General information
1.1. Description of the control
News displays a list of news items loaded from an RSS or RDF feed – for example from a news site, a company blog, or another system that publishes its content as a feed.
- Each item of the feed is listed with its title, description, and a “more...” link leading to the full text at the source.
- The news items scroll smoothly upwards within the area of the control. Hovering the mouse over the list stops the scrolling so that the text can be read and the link clicked.
- The loaded content of the feed is cached for one hour; during that time the feed is not downloaded again.
- If the feed cannot be downloaded or parsed, the text “The page cannot be displayed.” is shown instead of the news items, and the control tries to load it again after five minutes at the earliest.
1.2. Create a new control
New news can be created as follows from the view page using the toolbar with controls:
- First, clicking on the view page determines the position in which the new news should be placed. This will highlight the selected position with a gray horizontal line. Then just click on the item “News” in the toolbar of the view page, fill in the attributes of the new control in the newly opened dialog, and then save. This will insert new news at a pre-selected location on the view page.
- If the required position is not determined before inserting new news, the new news will be inserted at the end of the view page.
- The control is not available in NET Genium Online – the view page toolbar does not offer it.
1.3. Edit or delete a control
- For each existing control, a pencil icon appears to the left of the control page to change or delete the control's settings.
- Individual controls can be moved vertically on the view page using the Drag&Drop method. Moving consists of grabbing the control, preferably behind its name, and then dragging it to the desired location on the view page.
- Controls can be moved only with the “Drag&Drop” check box located above the toolbar with controls selected. For security reasons, this check box is cleared after each login to the application, so that a control is not moved by accident.
2. List of tabs in the control settings dialog
- General – Setting general properties
- Rights – Rights settings
- Administration – Setting other properties
2.1. “General” tab
2.1.1. Name
- The name of the control.
2.1.2. Dictionary
- The dictionary lists the names of other controls, forms, view pages, categories, applications, and application groups used across the entire application.
- The dictionary search is used to design the correct control name and to maintain the consistency of the nomenclature throughout the application so that controls with the same meaning located in different places in the application are named in the same way.
2.1.3. RDF/RSS URL
- Internet address of the RSS feed.
2.2. “Rights” tab
2.2.1. Rights
- Rights define a list of user groups and users who have permission to display the control on the view page.
- For a new control, the rights are prefilled from the control at the position selected before inserting it; if no position is selected, from the rights of the view page.
2.2.2. Replace rights to other controls
- The “Replace rights to other controls” feature is used to unify rights across the entire view page for controls that are related in terms of rights.
- Thanks to the “Show...” link, it is possible to display a list of all controls on the view page, including the settings of the rights of these controls. A check box is displayed for each control to select it. When the control is saved, the same rights are then set for the selected controls.
- An alternative for unifying rights within the entire view page is the overview of the rights settings of all controls, displayed by the “Show summary...” link on the “Rights” tab in the view page settings.
2.3. “Administration” tab
- The “Administration” tab is only displayed for existing controls.
2.3.1. Location
- Select the view page on which the control is located.
- The drop-down list contains the view pages located in the same application and in the same category as the view page on which the control stands. For a view page without a category, it offers only view pages without a category. For a new control, it contains only the current view page.
2.4. “Save”, “Delete”, and “Close” buttons
- “Save” button – Saves changes to the control settings.
- “Delete” button – Permanently deletes the control.
- “Close” button – Closes the control settings dialog without saving changes.