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Viz Pilot User’s Guide
6.4.2
Overview
Feed URIs can be defined in the control object of the scene design in Viz Artist.
Additionally, the feed URI for a tab-field in a template can be defined from within Viz
Pilot. Each page then uses the feed browser to edit the tab-field value. The specified
feed URI in Viz Pilot overwrites any existing feed URI from the control object. A reimport
of the scene does not reset the specified feed URI by the field definition specified in
control object.
A tab-field in general has several properties. Each property relates to a control plugin in
the scene. Properties are grouped under a tab-field by a naming convention.
Example: The ControlText plug-ins specifying the field identifiers 1.name, 1.score
and 1.image will form a tab-field 1 with the properties name, score and image.
Selecting a feed item for the tab-field 1 should apply the parts of the selected
item to the properties name, score and image at once. The individual property
values should be editable as usual. The feed item selection works as a pure fill-in
help.
The feed linking is usable across all tab-field types.
Note: Make sure you define matching object types; a thumbnail link for control
image tab-fields, and so on.
Feed Types
The feed browser supports two types of feeds:
• Flat feeds
• Hierarchical feeds (folder structure)
Tabfield Grouping
To be able to set multiple tabfield values from the same feed entry, the tabfields must
be grouped together. This is done by giving them the same prefix followed by the
period character. For example, the following tabfield names will generate two groups of
tabfields (candidate1 and candidate2):
candidate1.name
candidate1.image
candidate2.name
candidate2.image
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