July 2012
Beginner
504 pages
10h 54m
English
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Chapter 5
Subscribing to Feeds and Alerts
In This Chapter
Viewing RSS news feeds of your SharePoint lists
Displaying RSS feeds from Outlook
Viewing RSS feeds of other sites
Subscribing and managing alerts
Nowadays, virtually all web sites publish a syndication feed, or RSS feed, of their site’s content. SharePoint 2010 sites are no different. In fact, every list and library in SharePoint can publish an RSS feed. You can even create RSS feeds based on views, which means you can filter what gets published to it. If you subscribe to the feed, you’re pulling the information. However, you can also subscribe to alerts to make SharePoint push updates to you.
Viewing RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are a popular way for people to keep track of updates to a web site without visiting that site. All the lists and libraries in your SharePoint 2010 team site can display an RSS feed.
To use RSS feeds, they must be enabled for your list. To see whether RSS feeds are enabled, you should see the standard RSS button enabled in the list’s Ribbon. If RSS is disabled, the button appears in the Ribbon but is disabled, ...
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