Hello,
Having worked in presales at SAP for over 17 years I’ve a bit of experience for building dashboards, stories and the odd customer demonstration. I like to include corporate data using both live and acquired connections as well as data from other sources.
This could be using a web page to include external content or embedding a news feed using the SAC RSS Reader component. One challenge I’ve always found was to locate a decent RSS source with relevant content for the specific story I’m building.
Today however, I found a way to generate an RSS feed for any topic you might need. Using Google I learnt that you can build a simple URL including your required search string that will work as a source for your RSS feed.
Let’s assume you want to create a feed to include news about “Business Intelligence“. You simply need to create the following URL:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=business+intelligence
That’s it, so simple and Google does all the work for you – thanks Google. Add an RSS Reader to your SAC story…
Open the Designer and paste in a Description and the URL…
…and that's it, you're done and your SAC story now contains a fully interactive news feed for any topic you want. Give it a go and let me know what you think…
Don’t want to know about Business intelligence but Salt and Vinegar crisps are your thing? No problem, just use this URL instead:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=salt+vinegar+crisps
If your topic is more than one word just separate them with the + (plus) symbol. Single words just need to go after the = (equals) sign.
Danny “The Dashboard” Davis
@mrxcelsius
Having worked in presales at SAP for over 17 years I’ve a bit of experience for building dashboards, stories and the odd customer demonstration. I like to include corporate data using both live and acquired connections as well as data from other sources.
This could be using a web page to include external content or embedding a news feed using the SAC RSS Reader component. One challenge I’ve always found was to locate a decent RSS source with relevant content for the specific story I’m building.
Today however, I found a way to generate an RSS feed for any topic you might need. Using Google I learnt that you can build a simple URL including your required search string that will work as a source for your RSS feed.
Let’s assume you want to create a feed to include news about “Business Intelligence“. You simply need to create the following URL:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=business+intelligence
That’s it, so simple and Google does all the work for you – thanks Google. Add an RSS Reader to your SAC story…
Open the Designer and paste in a Description and the URL…
…and that's it, you're done and your SAC story now contains a fully interactive news feed for any topic you want. Give it a go and let me know what you think…
Don’t want to know about Business intelligence but Salt and Vinegar crisps are your thing? No problem, just use this URL instead:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=salt+vinegar+crisps
If your topic is more than one word just separate them with the + (plus) symbol. Single words just need to go after the = (equals) sign.
Danny “The Dashboard” Davis
@mrxcelsius
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