Modifying the News section on the Business Publisher Home page

Hello Jackie, below is an excerpt from the ARIS Installation and Administration guide that talks about the News section:

The News section in the Home module is used in the standard export as an example. If you have knowledge of RSS feed and XML programming, you can insert links in this area.

Prerequisite

You have access privileges for the ARIS Business Publisher Server installation directory.

Procedure

1. Open the file

\BPServer\tomcat\webapps\businesspublisher\layouts\default\config\layout.cfg.xml with your editor.

2. Find the <news basename="news"> area, and enter the URL for your RSS feed.

<news basename="news">

<!-- TODO synchronize access to feed-xml -->

<url proto="http"

location="http://www.ids-scheer.com/idsupload/products/aris_news/aris_news.xml"

proxyAdress="hades.ids-scheer.de" proxyPort="3103" refresh="600"/>

</news>

3. Save your changes.

And finally, after every change you make in the configuration files, you must always restart the Business Publisher service in the server.

Yes, I have that code.

I'm interested in knowing if straight content can be included besides URL links. If so, does it require any special XML syntax.

Examples of code on how others have customized this section would be nice.

The only alternative I know of is editing the file ...\ARIS7.1\BPServer\tomcat\webapps\businesspublisher\layouts\default\data\news.rdf.xml

You have to change it manually with an editor if you want to add entries.

An entry always includes this HTML structure:

<item>

<title></title>

<description></description>

<link></link>

</item>

This must be added below the "</copyright>"-tag, in the "<channel>"-tag:

Here's an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title>News</title>

<link>http://www.ids-scheer.com/</link&gt;

<description>IDS Scheer AG</description>

<language>de-de</language>

<lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 May 2006 11:28:45 +0000</lastBuildDate>

<copyright>Copyright (C) IDS Scheer AG</copyright>

<item>

<title>ARIS Portal</title>

<description>This is an example for the news and this text will appear</description>

<link>http://www.ids-scheer.com</link&gt;

</item>

<item>

<title>Google</title>

<description>Google Search Page</description>

<link>http://www.google.com</link&gt;

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Thanks for the info, Claudio.

Just wanted to give everyone an update on the resolution to this problem.

With Claudio's great example, we modified the news.rdf.xml file with our static content with the <link> tag going to our SharePoint repository and other locations where we have documents stored. Once we had the contents in the file, it took a bit of figuring out how to get Business Publisher to read the file. We were finally successful.

This group is a great resource that has definitely helped us in our efforts to satisfy our internal customer requests.

Hello,

I succeeded to do this , but sometimes i want just to put a text without the link under.

Have you any idea, how can i do this?

Thanks in advance,

Abdel

Abdel,

That was one thing that I could not get to work.

During our testing, we found that if we didn't include the <link></link> tag, the news.rdf.xml file wouldn't work. This is why I created an informational PowerPoint slide or directed users to our SharePoint repository.

Another option would be to include this information under the Welcome to ARIS section. That is an easy area to modify.

Thank you Jackie,

That what i concluded also after my test, because i essayed many times to change the code.

Abdel,

Hi Jackie,

Can you give me an example how did you do ?

I saw that you used the parameters <link> but is it under "default code" of layout.cfg ?



    <news basename="news">

          <url proto="http"

             location="http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss



             refresh="600"/>

    </news></url>



 

How can I change  Font of text ? content of description ?

Misha,

To my knowledge the text font cannot be changed, unless that is buried somewhere I never looked.

I'm unclear on what you mean by "content of description". Can you clarify?

Dr. Jackie Damrau

As I understand , text surrounded by  <description> tags is displayed , Actually , I want to change language of the text. I want my news to be displayed in Georgian language. But I could not achieve this goal :)

    I've solved my problem with encoding , now I don't know how to format text ? for exmaple line breaks, two or more spaces , tab ... etc. HTML tags ( like  <br>) don't work ...

Finally, I've customized News in my publisher :))) I have everything I want in it - no links , bullets (images) and so , on.    I just ignored XML data, and  wrote pure HTML instead of it :)

Misha,

Can you share your solution with us here? If not, can you email it upon request.

hi jeckie , give me yout e-mail, I guess tomorrow I'll have some time to wirite .

Hi Misha,

I am very interested of how you did the configuration

Could you please send me an example to my mail?

giladw@sekerconsult.com

Thank you very much in advance

Gilad

Hi Misha,

I just came across this article today and experimented it. With some extra efforts I could make it work succesfully. I know NO coding be it HTML or XML, but am keen to learn the basics. I would like to develop my HTML skills just for this very purpose, I would like to know how to add images/logos, paras,bullets, etc... So could you please help me out, here is my mail id - tarun323@hotmail.com. 

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Cheers,

Tarun R.

I am also interested in  how you did the configuration

Could you please send me an example to my mail?

Patricia.nelson@nationalgrid.com

Thank you very much in advance

I am interested in the html configuration. Can you please email me at b.baker@leonardo.com.au

Would you please provide us with your solution on how to customize News section of the Publisher?

My e-mail is e.ilyova@nra.bg.

Regards,

Elka

Hi,

Can you just mail to soundaryashekaran@gmail.com pls.,..

Can anyone give me the solution sample for news section customization  and my id is soundaryashekaran@gmail.com

Please forward your solution to me.  Thanks!  

email:  dhinkle@hersheys.com

One can edit the home.jsp page within default folder 

Look for the <td class="homeRightColumn"> section. The HTML code needs to go inside that <td>. 
We have tried this for one our customer. It works all fine.

Cheers,
Vishal

Hi,

Am looking to modify the news.rdf with my own content of html tags. But the <br> and <bold> tags are not working. I want to put something like below: but the <description> tag writes everything in one line not in line breaks. Anyone please help me out if that's possible?

News

Sample one

Sample two

Links