Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.

Search for | Example | Results |
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A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |

Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Feed Widgets
The Feed widget enables you to display information feeds, similar to well-known RSS feeds. Feeds must be sent as JSON-encoded data. The data channel must include the field's title
and link
in order to display the feed. New feed items are always added to the top of the list.
The Feed widget displays the following items:
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The creation time stamp of the item.
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The title field as text (retrieved from the
title
data field). -
The link field as hyperlink (retrieved from the
link
data field).
Example feed data:
{
"time":1437633749317,
"type":"test",
"title":"Tests show UK Quran manuscript is among world's oldest",
"link":"http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/HgufPus_pOs/index.html"
}
Note Do not rotate Feed widgets. This breaks the widget functionality.
You can style the displayed feed items by providing a custom CSS definition in the BVD System Settings. For more information, see Modify the system settings.
Example
.feedItem .ts {display: none;}
.feedItem .even {background-color: #262627;}
.feedItem a:hover {text-decoration: none;}
.feedItem section {hight:30px; padding: 3px; margin: 0}
Widget properties:

The Data Channel property enables you to select the data stream over which you want to feed data into the widget. Before you can select a data stream, you must send data to BVD, addressed to the data channel you want to select for your widget.
Example
To show the rise and fall of the temperature in your store in New York City, select the following data channel for your widget:
The data received includes the following:
type: Temperature
element: Monitor
value: 20.9 status: #008000

The Feed Max Items property sets the maximum number of items to display in the Feed widget.

Select Transparent Background to hide the placeholder shape and show the feed as a transparent overlay.