MIDAS Knowledge Base

MIDAS Add-on: Data Feeds

The Data Feeds addon for MIDAS automatically generates multiple data feeds of your bookings for use with 3rd party external calendars and applications.

What Data Feeds can be generated?

The "Data Feeds" add-on is capable of generating a variety of different data feeds from your bookings. These include:

RSS Feeds
Google Calendar Feeds
iCal Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS is a common web feed format for delivering regularly changing news/data to many users in a standardized format. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. In MIDAS, an RSS feed will generate a feed of upcoming bookings for use with RSS compatible readers/aggregators.

The Data Feeds add-on replaces our older "RSS Feeds" add-on, however all the original functionality has been maintained. Existing customers using the older RSS Feeds add-on will be automatically updated to the Data Feeds add-on when they update to MIDAS v4.23 or later.

Google/iCal Feeds

Google Calendar/iCal Feeds allow you to "subscribe" your external calendar (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc) to include bookings from your MIDAS system.

How to get the Data Feeds add-on

Existing customers running MIDAS v4.23 (or later) can add the Data Feeds add-on to their MIDAS system via the upgrade page.

New customers may include the API Access add-on at time of purchase, or add it to their MIDAS at a later date.

Once the Data Feeds add-on has been purchased, it will then become available for one-click installation within your MIDAS software via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage Addons.

Settings

The optional Data Feeds add-on allows you to generate multiple data feeds for different applications, each of which may be customized to limit the bookings included within the feed to only those which take place in certain venues, and/or which are of a certain "type", and/or which match other key criteria.

Documentation

Complete Data Feeds add-on documentation, including some live RSS feed and external calendar subscription examples, is available at https://mid.as/data-feeds.