Hi Dojo,
Is there (or will there be) a way to add custom web feeds for the default landing page in Cube?
The current DM versions provide info for driver updates or from Skyline updates.
I'm thinking if the same type of messaging could be used to embed additional sources, such as maintenance notification from internal systems (e.g. ServiceNow), Live Event info for the schedule of a LIVE operator (e.g. a ScheduAll matches for the operator shift) or generally some weather forecasts from different towns or (why not) BBC News RSS feeds?
Is this something that would require the DMA to be Cloud-connected or could a web-proxy be sufficient for cluster? What are the viable options in the short/middle term for NEWS UPDATEs in CUBE?
Thanks
Hi Alberto - great idea, but unfortunately not possible through those channels. But note that it is quite achievable to implement something like this yourself. Just a simple driver where you can capture some strings with your content/messages, and for example add in your Visual Overview on your root view an announcement section where you display that string. As your messages are standard parameters, like on any other managed element, you can easily set those manually, or for example through automation (e.g. to push a message for a booking that is about to start). I have seen this type of things already in some DataMiner Systems. And there are also drivers to ingest RSS feeds, or I have seen drivers that capture Twitter feeds for example.
Thanks for the hint, Ben.
Found this in catalog: https://catalog.dataminer.services/result/driver/785
which seems specific for weather ~ could there be any generic RSS feed reader too, perhaps not yet listed in the catalogue?
It is indeed within the Skyline Cloud-Connected scenario that this is being considered, just trying to expand to other sources too, hence why I was wondering about embedding multiple RSS feeds: ideally not for a Visual Overview, though – giving credits to the default landing page here, as the idea of News-Updates “inspired” 😉
For the time being I will explore existing drivers and will just log a feature suggestion – so that if there’s value for other people too, it can be considered.
Wishing you a great weekend
Hi Alberto, On https://github.com/SkylineCommunications/Generic-RSS-Reader you can find a connector that I’ve quickly made to read the RSS feeds from https://feeds.fireside.fm/bibleinayear/rss (this can be changed on the element page).
Thank you very much Jens – will look into this asap
PS: something to consider is also getting your DataMiner System cloud-connected, we have a great integration with MS Teams, and amongst the use cases we have sending notifications to people, but also then for example creating a Teams channel for an upcoming booking, and more like that.