Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:36 AM
Jan Tielens
It is here! U2U RSS Feeds for SharePoint
Maybe you’ve noticed that the last couple of weeks I haven’t blogged a lot.
Behind the scenes the U2U SharePoint Team
was working hard on finishing the first release of a very exiting new tool: U2U
RSS Feeds for Microsoft SharePoint 2003! The people that have visited that Belgian Developer &
IT-Pro Days two weeks ago, already got a sneak preview. But now it’s ready
to be shown to the rest of the blogosphere!
If you can’t wait, go check it out at http://www.u2u.net/software.aspx .
If you want to see how it looks like, watch this short video,
starring me! :-) Any questions, remarks, issues, features request, … can be
posted on our brand new SharePoint Resource
Center.
So, what is it? The tool has only one goal: expose information in SharePoint
as RSS Feeds. Nothing new you may think, there are several other solutions
for this, so what’s the buzz? I think our approach is unique in quite a few
domains:
- Aggregation of items stored in multiple lists on multiple
sites
You can create an RSS feed that contains information coming
from more than one lists (or document libraries), that are potentially on
different sites.
- Customizable layout of RSS items
For each list that
you aggregate in an RSS Feed you can specify how the items in the RSS feed
should look like. You can do that by using some sort of formulas, referring to
fields coming from the SharePoint lists.
- Non-intrusive installation
The installation of the RSS
Feeds tool doesn’t change a thing about your SharePoint installation, the
IT-Pro guys will be happy! The tool is completely separated from the
SharePoint sites and doesn’t require you to add metadata or web parts to
SharePoint.
- SharePoint Authorization
Are you afraid of exposing
sensitive data? Well you don’t have to, our tool uses the SharePoint security
model, so if a user doesn’t have access to the SharePoint list he or she can’t
retrieve information from the RSS feed. Anonymous access to RSS feeds is also
supported (if your SharePoint site is available for anonymous users of
course).
- GUI Administration
The administration of the tool
(creating feeds, item layouts, …) is completely done by using a nice graphical
user interface.
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