additional RSS feed in the dashboard

Jens Bothe06. Jun 2010 | AdministrationBest PracticesDevelopment

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The practical examples presented in our technical blog (blog.otrs.com) and now in the expert category in our FAQ blog section serve as a source of ideas and documentation to show what is theoretically possible with OTRS in concrete scenarios or sometimes even for more exotic configurations. All configurations presented here were developed under laboratory conditions as a proof of concept. 

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The OTRS dashboard can be extended quite easy. Some of the existing widgets can be used  more then once.

An easy example is an additional RSS feed.

The “Heise Newsticker” should be displayed below the OTRS.org newsfeed in the dashboard.

Just insert in Config.pm the following code:

$Self->{'DashboardBackend'}->{'0415-RSS'} =  {
'Block' => 'ContentSmall',
'CacheTTL' => '600',
'Default' => '1',
'Description' => 'Heise Newsticker',
'Group' => '',
'Limit' => '5',
'Module' => 'Kernel::Output::HTML::DashboardRSS',
'Title' => 'Heise News',
'URL' => 'http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml'
};