Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:42 PM
Jan Tielens
U2U RSS Feeds for SharePoint Leaked Screenshots
There is a rumour that next week (@ DevDays) U2U will announce a tool to generate RSS feeds for
SharePoint. Nothing new you might think, there are several other solutions.
That's right, but you haven't seen the screenshots, nor the feature list. I
did! :-) In fact I "found" some screenshots on my
desktop today... (don't know how they got there)
Some cool features are:
- Aggregation of different lists
into one RSS feed. The lists don't need to be on the same site, or on the same
server.
- Customizable contents of the RSS
feed items: for each list you can specify how the contents should look like by
using a formula-like notation.
- Uses SharePoint list views to
select items from a list. This might sound not spectacular, but you can use
views to give each user personalized content (e.g. My
Tasks).
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