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organtech reported a problem in Tightrope Media Systems on February 19, 2009 15:20:

Bulletins misspell themselves.

Letters in bulletins are being cut off. We've had to spell 'classes' as 'classess' because the last letter in the word is being cut off occasionally. This isn't consistent, either. The problem occurs both on the ends and sometimes in the middle of the line. I spotted what I thought was an error, pointed the error out to the secretary, who showed me that the bulletins sometimes just cut off a letter. The only workarounds that I can see are 1) to create a bulletin in another program, save it as a .jpeg or .gif, and put that in as the only thing in the bulletin, or 2) add a nonprinting space character, such as alt-0160 after a word on which this occurs.

This is a really strange problem.

organtech replied on February 16, 2009 14:39 to the discussion "API for tightrope software" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Are there any options? We see some possibilities in creating a customized front end.

organtech replied on February 15, 2009 16:06 to the discussion "API for tightrope software" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Concerning API's--Is the above sufficient for writing a custom front end? We have a volunteer IT specialist who is interested in creating some custom work for us and does need an API to the Tightrope system, if this is allowed.

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organtech replied on January 20, 2009 13:48 to the question "XML and RSS tightrope carousel" in Tightrope Media Systems:

I've tried that. There's a lot of HTML or XML coding there, but even snipping out any of the IP addresses and using those does not work. Apparently, these were intended strictly for website purposes, as there's no way I can see to stuff all that code into Tightrope.

organtech asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on January 19, 2009 15:56:

XML and RSS tightrope carousel

I'd like to find a way to get RSS feeds from the ELCA. Augsburgfortress.org, the publishing house for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has available RSS feeds, but what they provide is code that can be put into a web page. Carousel/Tightrope can't read this type of feed, unless I'm missing something, which may be the case.

I'd like to be able to use one of these feeds, at least on occasion, but I don't see a good way to get them into Carousel. The page with feed information is http://www.augsburgfortress.org/rss/d...

but they have XML codes, not a URL.

If I'm really overlooking things here, I am sorry, but I can't find a place to start. I think the Augsburgfortress.org site isn't ready for RSS, at least for signage.

Thanks!

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