YASR: RSS In SharePoint 2007

RSS feeds are great to keep you up to date without the hassle to go and look if information is updated; the new/updated stuff is pushed towards you. In the previous version of SharePoint, there was no support for RSS feeds out of the box. Although it’s possible to add RSS functionality to SharePoint 2003 by installing add-ons, it’s not very straight forward. Luckily in the new SharePoint 2007 RSS feeds are available, and the good news is: it’s enabled by default! When you navigate to a list or document library, you can select the View RSS Feed item from the Actions menu.

This will navigate to the RSS feed’s URL, but you’re not going to see the raw XML; it’s transformed into a nice web page using a XSLT. From this page you can click the Subscribe to this feed link which will send the feed to your favorite RSS reader (for example Outlook 2007).

This is what you get if you do not change anything, of course you can also customize the RSS feed for each list. For each list’s RSS feed you can specify the title, description and image url. Additionally it’s possible to choose the columns which should be included and the number of items to show in the feed (optionally limited by the age of the items). The default RSS feed of a list is based on the default view of that list. But each list view also has a RSS feed which can be retrieved from the view’s settings page. Great!

So is there still room for improvement and/or opportunities?  I do think so! One of the nice features of the U2U RSS Feed Generator for SharePoint, is the ability to create a feed that aggregates more than one list. This enables the users of a site to subscribe to one feed which bundles all the important information of a site. Maybe exposing the OPML for all the lists of a specific site could be a workaround. Let’s see if there will be any improvements in RC1, otherwise we’ll have to built something!

21 Comments

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  • Hi ,
    Iam trying to add built in RSS Viewer Web Part on my sharepoint site but iam not able to get any information from source. i have Provided Annoucement RSS feed URL for the RSS Viewer webpart but not able to display any content from annoucements ..
    The error is "The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds".

    Will Appreciate if any one can brainstrom on this.

    Thanks
    KP.Mani

  • I have the same problem ("The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds" error) since I have updated to Beta 2 Technical Release. It was working fine before TR.

    Any idea what could cause this problem?

  • Same here "The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds"
    Any solutions?

    Tnx in advance

  • I would like to map a column of a list (different from the ones marked with an asterisk) to an RSS tag... someone has an idea on how this can be done ?

    thanks in advance

  • I have followed the above URL for RSS feed in MOSS B2TR, As i save the settings done in "Application Management" -> "Authentication provider" my Portal site is completed getting distorted and showing the Following error "Service Unavailable"

    Then i have revert back all the changes then my site was working fine, even i have checked the security identity of my application pool as "Network security" then also it is creating a problem.

    Kindly help me out,

    Thanks in advance,

  • hi
    i am trying to get a simple rss viewer on my web page. but i get an error:

    "Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator."

    surya

  • I'm trying to save changes from my local version in SharePoint Designer back to the server and I'm getting the same error message as Surya:

    "Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator."

  • I was seeing the same "Unable to display this Web Part" error for all external fields, until I remembered that I need to configure the proxy that SharePoint uses in web.config.

  • The follwing error occurs even when I set the proxy in web.config:

    ProtocolError occured trying to complete the request. The server returned a status code of : ProxyAuthenticationRequired and the status description is : "Proxy Authentication Required"

  • The follwing error occurs even when I set the proxy in web.config:

    ProtocolError occured trying to complete the request. The server returned a status code of : ProxyAuthenticationRequired and the status description is : "Proxy Authentication Required"

    PLS awnser ASAP.

  • "This will navigate to the RSS feed’s URL, but you’re not going to see the raw XML; it’s transformed into a nice web page using a XSLT"

    I want to see the raw XML RSS Feed of a list item. Is't Possible

    Thanks in Advance,
    Arshad

  • "This will show the data from list on sharepoint server but I want to generate RSS feed for the data (Link to Audio or video or any other file) which is shown in a grid view of a webpart and I have to generate RSS for data shown on grid view only. Is it possible, help me out of this."

  • ProtocolError occured trying to complete the request. The server returned a status code of : ProxyAuthenticationRequired and the status description is : "Proxy Authentication Required

    I am facing the same problem

  • I would also like to map list columns to an RSS tag. Has anyone figured this out yet?

  • I want to see the raw XML RSS Feed of a list item. Is this possible?

  • Like Jimmy T in his previous post I am also very interested how to get raw XML RSS feed from the Sharepoint list.

  • How do we get the raw XML?

  • Just started to try this feature on MOSS 2007 Trial. Looks like the View RSS page is always cached. This, for some reason (including my lack of knowledge in RSS), causes my RSS Reader, a widget) not to show the latest feed.

    In order to overcome this, I have to REMOVE all IE web caches (already set to refresh on every visit), and reload the View RSS Page. Afterwards, I can refresh the RSS Reader, the item will show on there........

  • How do I get the feed URL for a sharepoint blog. I want to use it in newsgator

  • Himani, to get the URL of the specific list/doc.lib you should select Actions -> RSS feed.

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