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Create A FIFA Twitter Feed In Your Orion Web Console

Create A FIFA Twitter Feed In Your Orion Web Console

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1     Edit your page

Click ‘Customize Page’ from the page you intend to add this resource to…

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2     Add the resource

Identify the column of the page you want to add the resource to and click the “+” button.  This will let you search your available resource types to add to the page. (450 pixels is the recommended width for viewing this resource but it will scale to your configured width)

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3     Select the resource

In the Search field, type “Custom HTML”.  When you check the box next to the resource, the resource will add to the “Selected Resources:” column.  After you confirm that the resource is listed as a “Selected Resource”, click the “Add Selected Resources” button at the bottom-right of the frame.

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4     Add the resource to the view

After you have confirmed that the resource is added the desired column, click the “Done” button at the bottom-left of the page.  This will apply the new resource to your view.

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5     Edit the resource on the view

Confirm the resource added to the view the way you expected it to and click the “Edit” button.

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6     Add the code

Create a custom Title. For ours, we used “FIFA World Cup 2014 | Brasil”.

Then add the following Code to the body of the resource and click the “Submit” button…

<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup" data-widget-id="477096557016141825">Tweets by @FIFAWorldCup</a>

    <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

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7     Confirm the Resource

After submitting your changes, you should see a resource with the “@FIFAWorldCup” Twitter feed.

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Create a FIFA Twitter Feed in your Orion Web Console | Loop1 Systems, Inc.

Jason Henson

Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services

  • This got me thinking.... How did you make the URL for the custom HTML? I ask because we are a global NOC and I would like to add Twitter feeds for the weather alerts in the remote locations to our NOC view. We have the google maps weather overlays for our maps but it would be nice to have the actual tweets rolling on the screen as well.

    Also looking at possibly using Twitter for emergency communication between global team. May use it as a way to monitor our devices as well in the future. Just thinking outside the box right now.

    Thanks for sharing.

  • Answered my own question with a little research. If anyone else wants to make a custom Twitter feed on their Orion dashboard you need go to your Twitter account and make an Embedded Timeline / widget. The below URL had step by step instructions. It was super easy once I figured out what it was called emoticons_happy.png

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/27/create-twitter-widget/

    Thanks for posting the idea. Lots of possibilities with this