Integrating TweetOut with InfoCaster involves X number of steps:
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Draw region in IC
Double-click on a region or select Items
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- TweetOut, use BLADE to generate an RSS Query String URL for a Twitter or Facebook playlist or topic.
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Note: This section details the specific integration required between Harris Infocaster and BL TweetOut. See the Harris InfoCaster Online Help system for complete details on working with InfoCaster, creating and managing regions, adding data tags, and complete details on the options available via the Data Source Wizard.
Link Data Tags to External Data Source
In InfoCaster, when you draw regions, you can create data tags and link those data tags to external data sources, such as an RSS feed from TweetOut, using the Data Source Wizard. Maintaining your data in an external file allows you to update information automatically, without needing to edit the items.
- Draw a region.
- Double-click on the region.
- Select a Quick Editor for that region and click Add.
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- Add
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- one or more data tag(s) for the region
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- Select the External Data Source option and click Setup
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- If using external editors, such as TitleMotion, can’t do the external connection part in TM, must be done after setting up components in TM in IC
In the Data Source Wizard, select the Create new RSS/XML data source option.
Click Next.
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- to open the Data Source Wizard.
- Select the Create New RSS/XML Data Source option and click Next.
- In the URL/XML File Path field,
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For the Data Source Name, enter a unique data source identifier.
Click Next.
No authentication is required. Click Commit.
Expand the tree, select Description (tweet text). And click Next.
Next dialog sets up the data types – no changes needed for TO. Next
Assign which column goes to which text field in IC.
Set the frequency of checking for updates using the Data Play Back option (set to 30sec or more; don’t make this too frequent).
Finish.
Can add more fields
Avatars can be added like Tweet text, just a different tree segment (should cover this), assuming that that data is available in TO
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- copy and paste the RSS Query String URL from the TweetOut BLADE module.
- Enter a unique Data Source Name to identify this data source.
Note: You can have multiple regions connecting to the same RSS external data feed for a single page of your InfoCast. However, when you have different pages or different InfoCasts that all connect to the same feed, you must create a new data source with a unique name for every InfoCast page. - Specify whether only the current Windows user is allowed access to this data or all users can access the data by selecting the appropriate option.
- Click Next.
- When prompted for Source Authentication, select No authentication and click Commit.
In the Data Source Wizard:
- Expand the Data File Structure, including RSS and Channel.
- Select Description.
- Add Description to the Selected Data Source list.
- Click Next.
Specify data parameters including Column Header and Data Type and click Next.
Set the data source to the field and click Next.
Specify when InfoCaster checks for new TweetOut content by setting the Data Playback option. You do not want this retrieval value to be smaller than 30 seconds.
Click Finished. The configured data tag now shows "From External Source". When you move to Regions, the region will also indicate that it is configured for an external data source.
For each field that you want to connect to an external source, such as TO content:
To connect Tweets to InfoCaster, you need to establish a data source through the ODBC Wizard.
The Data Source Wizard will now present the entire XML tree.
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