News-ticker? 
Author: Martin GrossHello everybody,
I would like to incorporate something like a news ticker into my homepage that would display texts from the RSS feed or from the Blog.
I am using X5 Pro version and I absolutely love the feature of tabbed tables.
My idea is to create a tabbed table with some 10 tabs and to incorporate HTML code into each tab that would fetch data from the RSS feed, tab no. 1 would fetch always the latest post, tab no. 2 the second latest post and so on, so once there would be a new post to the RSS feed, the data in each tab would automatically change accordingly.
Could someone please advice on how this could be accomplished? I will be more than happy to write some code and/or use some third-party software/RSS aggregator to accomplish this task.
Many thanks!
Martin
Hello Martin,
Only the text and table objects allows you to use the tabs but they support only limited html code and the best object to add a rss feed reader would be to use the HTML&Widget Object where you won't have the tabs and it would be necessary to add them with custom code.
What you could do is to find a custom code to display the feed and add the main part of the code inthe HTML &Widget Object and then the part which only displays them in the Text Object where you created the tabs.
Please feel free to write back if you need more information.
Author
Hello Claudio,
thank you for your answer. Could you please be more specific regarding the limitations? In the program documentation there is just one single sentence about this topis. Or is it again trial - error? Will you again tell me that there is enough information available?
Best
Martin
Hello Martin,
In the text and table object you can add short html code and not complex scripts. In most cases if you split the code and you add the complex code in the HTML&Widget object and then only the shorter part to load the content it should work without problems.
Avoid to use the complete code in a text object since it is not made to handle complex scripts or html code.
The Text and Table Object allows to use custom html code which is generally limited to the text like as example adding custom links with custom instructions like by using the target option.
Many thanks!
Author
In other words try and see what happens.
Very useful indeed.
Many thanks!
Hello Martin,
We cannot give support to third party or custom code since the functions do not depend on WebSite X5.
If you have any doubts on where to add it I can help you.
Many thanks!