RSS Controls

Owned by Kim Stimpson
Last updated: 05 Feb, 2015
2 min read

Overview

In discussions with our customers we found that they would like to be able to add their own local information RSS feeds to their web site pages and customise the content as necessary.  The following screen depicts how the textual content could be streamed from iShare and embedded on a web page - see area outlined in red.

As iShare can already supply RSS feed data it is simply a case of supplying the ASP.NET controls to allow for the specification of configuration and appearance settings.

If a user was visiting the page for the first time then the following would be displayed allowing them to search for a particular address which is remembered for the next visit:

The user enters an address or partial address and clicks Find. A list of matching addresses is displayed from which they select an address:

Once an address has been set for the site then something similar to the following will be displayed. The information will vary depending upon the page that the user is viewing e.g. Planning Applications, Local Schools etc. They will also have the ability to change their location.

Software Requirements

  • Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1 or v2.0

About the Controls

  • The UPRN can be set directly as a property of the control. If this is specified, the RSS feed will be fixed to this location.
  • If the UPRN is not set then the atLocation cookie will be queried for a UID value.
  • If the cookie UID is not present, then a textbox with a button is displayed which is used to call the Astun search function. Once the button has been pressed, users will be able to select an address and a cookie will be set to a new location. The RSS feed will be changed to be pertinent to the new address.
  • An XSL style sheet is used to allow users to specify their formatting of the XML data returned from the RSS feed.