Question: How to create synchronised regions/dataset feeds?

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Hello,

We’re currently trying out Xibo for our digital signage project, and the first step is to build a simple event ticker that can display upcoming events in a slideshow, with information currently provided by a dataset. We’ve already tried using one single feed providing all the information (screenshots 1&2), but obviously the paragraphs will get out of hand with the background design, depending on the length of each piece of data (e.g. EventName or EventDescription; screenshot 5).
Therefore our current idea is to work with 3 separate feeds (screenshots 3&4), each getting single pieces of data from the dataset. The problem with this method is that the feeds already start out out of sync, and the asynchronicity tends to get worse over time. Is there any way to sync up multiple regions or dataset-feeds by now, or is this feature planned to be included in the near future? If not, do you have any other suggestions in order to get a layout like ours working seamlessly? We definitely want to use the feature of feeding our layouts using the API, and therefore would like to use datesets.

thanks in advance!
Julian Süß

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I’d put each of the sections in a div, and apply custom CSS to change the background colour of the div you want in orange to orange. That way it will scale as required.