In this article, we will outline what's changed in the Data Feed Manager in Qompose — how feed settings are now organised, and the new filtering, sorting, and formatting capabilities available on your feeds.
Feed properties are now organised into tabs
Opening a Data Feed's properties now presents four tabs: General, Playback rules, Advanced, and History.
Only relevant fields are shown for your feed's connector type
Previously, every feed type showed the same full set of properties regardless of what kind of feed you'd configured. Now, only the fields relevant to your selected Type are shown — for example, a URL-based feed shows URL, Login, and Password, while other connector types show only what they actually need.
Data Feed Fields for Google Calendar in Qompose | Data Feed Fields for Google Calendar in QL2 |
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Setting a date format for date-type columns
If a column in your feed is set to the Date type, you can now choose exactly how that date displays — as a short date, a full written date, ISO format, or a Custom format of your own.
Click the column header for any Date-type field
Choose your preferred Format from the available options, or select Custom to define your own
Please Note
The ability to select the Date Formatting is specific to non-Navori feeds only.
Sorting your feed
Under Playback rules, the Sorting section lets you define how your feed's records are ordered — and you're no longer limited to a single sort column. Click + Add to add further sort levels, each with its own Sort by column and Direction (Ascending/Descending). Sorting is applied in the order the rows are listed — in the example below, records are sorted by title first, then by pubDate within that.
In addition, the Lookup allows you to refine your sorting parameters and apply them to a specific subset of items (in the screenshot above, our sorting will apply only to feeds that contain "sleep" in the title column).
Please Note
Sorting only affects the order your data is delivered and displayed on your media Players — it does not reorder the rows shown in the Data Feed Manager's own table view.
Conditional Formatting
Another powerful upgrade to Data Feeds is the Formatting options in the Advanced tab of the Data Feed Properties.
This allows for comprehensive conditional formatting via rules that can be applied to sets/groups. Multiple sets of rules can be used at one time (by clicking the +Add button for every new rule added), and each rule can have actions tied to it (in our example, any feed that identifies a title containing "Sleep" will colour the cell background red when displayed on media players).
Not only this, but some of the additional actions that can be carried out when matches are identified include:
Changing the font family
Changing the font size
Changing the font foreground colour
Changing the font style (normal/italics/underline)
Changing the font weight
Changing the text alignment
Changing the cell colour background
Changing the animation of a text
Changing whether data is visible or hidden
Summary
With connector-aware field visibility, custom date formatting, multi-level sorting, and a more powerful Lookup rule builder, configuring a Data Feed now shows you only what's relevant and gives you far more control over how your data is filtered, sorted, and delivered to your Players.