RSS Card Release Notes

This release improves the RSS card behavior when encountering RSS feeds without playlist items during playback, where a blank screen or overlay image, with the message “There are no items in the RSS feed to display”.

Previously, The RSS card would be blank during playback if there are no items within the RSS feed.

• The card theme has been updated in the Library with a new design, improving card standardization.
• The card base theme will not be generated during deployment, as the BaseCardTemplate property has been set to false in the manifest.json file in the card template.
• The default fonts have been updated to follow Appspace branding, as follows:
  • Header text = Poppin font, previously Monserrat.
  • Body text = Roboto font, previously Lato.
• The card template has been assigned with the “Productivity and Engagement” content category.

These content categories can be changed during card creation by the Publisher or Author, as the card theme has been assigned a content category based on the messaging focus. These content categories are defined as follows:

• Culture & Values – Content that promotes company values and affects the employee experience, to help customers drive company values throughout their organization.
• Goals & Performance – content that showcases both long- and short-term goals and measurements of performance, to create shared ownership of company goals and drive employee performance.
• Productivity & Engagement – content with information that keeps the company running, day-to-day, facilitating organizational productivity.
• Safety & Compliance – content with information that supports employee safety and ensures company compliance with regulatory requirements, to help create a safe environment and promote safe behavior amongst employees.

Users will also be able to view the Content Category for every piece of content within a channel playlist. However, cards created prior to this release will not contain a content category, and will be considered as “Unassigned”.