[Pro] FW 7 and Song Title Information

Hello,

I have a small radio station and an FW 7 site for it. I would like to show the current song title/artist information on the home page. The station automation software can upload the html code of the song title information to the website folder and I can see the html file in the folder. The problem is getting that information onto the home page. I tried copying the html code and putting it in a markup box on the home page. The problem with that technique is that the song title/artist is not updating. Is there an Action or piece of code I need to be adding to make this happen? Thanks.

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The station automation software can upload the html code of the song title information to the website folder and I can see the html file in the folder.

Does it do it on a continuous basis? Using the same file name?

Can you post a link to it so that we can see the automatically generated code.

David


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On 6 Jan 2017, 11:45 pm, DeltaDave wrote:

The station automation software can upload the html code of the song title information to the website folder and I can see the html file in the folder.

Does it do it on a continuous basis? Using the same file name?

Can you post a link to it so that we can see the automatically generated code.

David

David;

Yes, the radio automation software overwrites the html file every time the song changes. I can’t provide you a link to the file since it is just a file residing in the website folder. But the code looks like this:

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Yes, the radio automation software overwrites the html file every time the song changes. I can’t provide you a link to the file since it is just a file residing in the website folder.

Do you mean locally - or on the server? And does the file name remain the same or does it change with each update?

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The file is written to the server as NowPlaying.html The name, “NowPlaying.html,” stays the same as the file is overwritten by the radio automation software for each song as it changes.

What I would need is for the automation software to write the NowPlaying.html file to a “container”, if I’m using the right term, within the home page itself instead of writing the NowPlaying.html file loose inside the website folder.


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What you can do is create an instance of an iFrame on your home page with the Target as the NowPlaying.html file - the full path of which would be something like http://www.mywebsite.com/NowPlaying.html

Insert > Action Item > iFrame then resize to suit and set the parameters ie

URL > Other > External: http://www.mywebsite.com/NowPlaying.html

Scrolling: No

Frame Border: 0

iFrame Name: nowplaying

That should do it.

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David;

That sounds like a great idea. I will give it a try. Thanks.


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Works great! Thanks again, David.


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