Archive for the tag 'RSS'

July 8, 2009

Control the RSS Feed Settings on an SPList via the API

Tobias Zimmergren tweeted today asking

Anyone got recommendations to how you modify RSS-Settings for an SPList object using the API?

Good question. The SPList object does have a property EnableSyndication that gets or sets whether an RSS feed is available. There is also an property ‘AllowRssFeeds’, but it is, apparently, read only.

So, you can set whether one is allowed or not – but there are a lot more settings. What about controlling them programmatically? Read more »

Tags: ,

Posted by Andy under Development
November 12, 2008

Error: CQWP – RSS feed of non-documents doesn’t work

This is a pretty weird error. I was doing content roll-up of Announcements lists, to give a unified news channel for our intranet. Naturally, I decided to do this using the Content Query Web Part. I added one, and selected that I wanted to query for the contents of Announcements lists. As I like RSS feeds, I enabled one, and I added it to my favorite feed-reader.

It worked – but the links to the announcements themselves didn’t work. The short summary is that is that it appears RSS feeds from Content Query Web Parts don’t work when you query for certain types of list. Read more »

Tags: , , ,

Posted by Andy under SharePoint 2007

 Subscribe in a reader