The Feed Plug-In allows you to read the latest information and news from the internet via RSS and Atom feed.
Before you can use the Feed Plugin for the first time you need to activate it.
Click the Avio Service icon 
and select Functional Groups. In the dialog popping up enable this functional group by clicking RSS Feed Reader following which it is then listed in yellow at the top. Finish by clicking Apply Changes.
Click on the Avio Service icon again and select Configure FeedReaderPlugin... (enabled) following which the configuration dialog appears.
In order to display a feed in Avio copy the feed web address into the text field next to the gray button Edit link.
Optionally, you can change the port address in field Port Address. The port must not be in use in the current Avio Service. Moreover, we also recommend using an address in the range from 11010 – 12000. After clicking Add Feed, the entry is listed at the top of list Feeds. Create additional feeds likewise.
When you click Configure Nodes general feed settings are displayed which are valid for all feeds on the list. Here, you can change all node settings for all feeds in one go. The following options are available:
Entries per Feed ... specifies the maximum number of entries per feed that are to be displayed. Item Update every specifies the time interval in minutes after which the feed information is to be downloaded again from the web.
Headlines Summary ... defines whether a summary of all the headlines to be displayed is to be produced. The value below Separator defines which separators are to be used to separate the individual headlines. Note: The summary length is limited. That’s why fewer headlines may be included in the summary than specified under Entries per Feed.
The remaining Display... checkboxes allow selection of additional nodes for display in Avio Manager. The last two checkboxes Display All and Display None serve for selecting and deselecting all entries.
After you have made all the settings, click on Save. Following this the settings are saved and the changes applied. Every time the settings are saved the previously created feeds are updated and the latest information is downloaded from the web.
When you start Avio Manager, port Feeds appears under Avio Service and after opening it, further ports, e.g. Feed 1, Feed 2 etc. are displayed depending on the number of ports you previously created. Behind Feed ... you will find the individual name of the feed provided the computer running Avio Service has access to the Internet. Within a feed all the available channels, such as Title, URL, Headline Summary, Headline 1... and Content 1... etc. are displayed. In Avio Manager, as rule, no values are displayed next to channels as this would be too much information. In order to display channel information you need to link up the channels with Wings Touch text fields. See also Wings Touch, Displaying variable information on the screen and Wings Avio Manager - An Overview.
The last port Feed XX - Current plays a special role because it allows the data of a selected feed to be displayed. Within this port all the different channels of the other feeds are listed and filled with values from the currently selected feed. The feed information to be displayed is selected via channels Next Feed, Current Feed and Previous Feed (...link up with buttons on Wings Touch). The channels finishing Current constitute the values of the current entry. Entries are selected via Next Entry, Current Entry and Previous Entry. This allows jumping between individual feeds and entries.
Note: Since the Current Feed port may contain a great number of entries it may take a while, depending on size and amount of feeds, before it opens in Avio Manager.
The FeedReader Plugin requires an Internet connection. It is not able to provide information without an existing Internet connection. No information is cached which would allow previously loaded values to be retrieved. Therefore, you need to make sure that Avio Service has access to the Internet.
Empty value fields in Avio Manager do not mean that no information was downloaded. In such a case the nodes contain information, but there is too much information within the feeds. This is why Avio Manager is sometimes not able to display all the data.
If you want the values to be displayed in Avio Manager it may help to enter a low value for Entries per Feed in the configuration dialog and to hide long text, such as Display Headlines Summary and Content.
If you enable Convert to plain text HTML-Text is converted to normal text and all <Tags> are removed from content and summary. Additionally, special coding, e.g. ä can be converted to their correct values.