RSS Syndication of SharePoint List Data
Recently, someone asked me for a good resource for syndicating SharePoint list data via RSS. What a great way to push SharePoint content to the growing community of RSS readers!
Note, SharePoint (SPS or WSS) is natively suited to be a good consumer of RSS (or XML) data. There are a number of 3rd party web parts that provide RSS display and aggregation capbilities. Personally, I have always used the XML web part and some simple javascript. SharePoint does not have out-of-the-box capabilities to syndicate content (Yet! V3 will change that). That said, there is always someone who has had a similar question and produced a web part as part of the answer. Two that I have seen are below. The first is WSS-based; the second is SPS-based. There are definite licensing implications of making SharePoint content available to the internet community. There is a $25K licensing cost for SPS on the internet (“external connector“). I believe the WSS cost is substantially less. Obviously, there is no cost to providing content to internal users. Anyway, check out the two sites below. I have used the WSS-based web part and find it very useful.
WSS-based (BlueDog Limited):
SPS-based (SharePoint Solutions Blog)