Publishing your alarms: RSS and web widgets
Introduction
News feeds (RSS) and website widgets are ways of sharing alarm data, typically for publication on or via your website. Active911 makes it easy for you to publish recent alarm data from your website using an embeddable widget or a custom RSS feed. In order to protect privacy, this service is not enabled by default. You must log into your Active911 account and make a settings change.
If you embed the widget in your agency website, you will see something like this:
Enabling News Feeds and RSS
To enable news feeds and RSS, follow the steps below:
Log in to interface.active911.com.
Navigate to the Agency page.
Scroll down to the Options section.
Find the Enable news feeds and RSS? setting and set it to Enable option.
Scroll up and find the Newsfeed CODE. It should be beneath your agency’s address information.
Warning: Once you change this setting, your alarm data will be exposed to the internet. Before you change this setting, make certain you are acting in accordance with your agency policy.
Implementing News Feeds and RSS
To access your RSS feed, use the URL: https://access.active911.com/interface/rss.php?CODE, replacing CODE with the code you wrote down
To embed a widget in your website showing recent alarms, paste the following lines into your website, substituting the code you wrote down for CODE, and also a google maps API key obtained from here for GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY (required if the domain has not previously had a Google Maps implementation prior to June 22, 2016):
<div id="a91_syndication"></div>
<script src="https://access.active911.com/interface/js.php?CODE" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> try{a91.init({'api_key': 'GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY'}); } catch(e) {} </script>
You can also pass options to control whether the full address is displayed, and whether the full call title is displayed. For example, the following code will show full addresses but will replace specific titles ("Code 3 Fall Injury") with generic ones ("Medical").
<div id="a91_syndication"></div>
<script src="https://access.active911.com/interface/js.php?CODE" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> try{a91.init({'show_alarm_titles': false, 'show_alarm_addresses': true, 'api_key': 'GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY'}); } catch(e) {} </script>
Additional options for editing the information shown are:
'show_alarm_titles' - true shows the information as shown in the alert, false will replace the title with a generic title.
'show_alarm_addresses' - true shows the information as shown in the alert, false will completely hide the address.
'abbreviate_addresses' - true will hide the number of the address.