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Hey I have 2 different servers, 1 is a Web Portal, using SharePoint 2007 and using the Team Site. For lists in here I have an oprion in the Actions menu to View RSS Feed...

My other server is a Web Content Management Server using the Publishing Portal. For my Custom Lists here, the View RSS Feed is not available? Anyone know why it is not available???

Thanks

Steve

The site administrator has the option of turning RSS feeds off for the entire web application. This is done from Site Actions > Site Settings. This can also be configured for each list or library as well from Settings > List Settings. You should check both areas to see how the system is configured.

Hope this helps!

Thanks Chris!! I needed to turn RSS Feeds on at the Site Collection level (Site Actions, Site Settings, Modify All Site Settings, RSS). After this the option was available to me on the list.

RSS must be disabled by default on the Publishing Portal Site, but enabled by default when you create a Team Site because I never had to turn on RSS when I configured my portal over the summer.

Thanks for the help!!

Steve

Glad I could help. I don't know if it is disabled by default since it is available on my publishing portal (and I never explicitly enabled it). Wierd.

Wierd. Maybe I disabled it when I setup the server (6 months ago), and forget doing it... I have been in and changed so much configuration, I cant remember what I have done anymore. Again, thanks.

Steve

Ahh... yes, that's why we're implementing change logs here! Hopefully, we can remember the settings that way!

I should have done that form the start as well!!! But I was nto thinking when I started this project. I have recently started taking note of things I do, and things I notice changed as I come across them... I think I did not start logging stuff from the beginning because I did not think I was going to be changing too much stuff... But over time, the list of things just kept on growing and growing...

So you are using a Publishing Portal. Are you creating a Web COntent Management System? or just an intenral web portal?

We are implementing several projects using SharePoint -- an intranet portal for employees, an extranet for a few vendors/partners/guests and a secure access portal for students. I voted for SharePoint as our Web Content Management system, but the artsy guys in our marketing department decided to go with a Cold Fusion solution instead. (I laugh each time I perform a search of the website and realize how much better the results would have been under SharePoint!)

You?

Chris, I have a working Portal setup for our faculty, staff and students, using the basic OOTB stuff. I am about 95% complete in making our Web Content Management System - complete with custom master pages, page layouts, styles, lists, etc. I would say I should have everythign done (except content) by the end of this week...

Steve

As Chris says, change log implementation is essential, but there might be a better way to do it than the traditional change log management. Let's think of blogs and wikis as tools for administration and project management, not just applications for team collaboration.

One of the first things I ask a SharePoint administrator (at any level: team site, site collection, server admin) to do is to setup a blog to document changes. At first they all think it's a pain, but when they have the ability to search, categorize and accurately assess/access this historical reference, they start singing a different tune. Documenting the thought process that helped drive a decision is just as important as documenting the change, itself. A side benefit to using a blog is transparency; your community of users can have visibility into the process of creating, expanding and maintaining the site.

This might be worth an entire thread. I going to post it to my blog at EndUserSharePoint.com to see how others are implementing change logs.

Regards,
Mark
EndUserSharePoint.com

Mark,

The irony of your post is that one of my users who manages our online learning system came to me about 3 months into our deployment and wanted a blog for this very scenario. He uses it to post all of his configuration changes to this system so he has both a track record of support incidents with the vendor and a complete log of changes. This has increased the productivity of calls to the vendor as there are no more check here/there for what the configuration values are!

Another idea came from our facilities management group. They manage all of the HVAC systems on the campus, but they have to coordinate changes of the systems with several part-time employees. The HVAC system has no way to record why a change occurred to the system, so the part-time workers were wrestling with the system. For example, the normal schedule would be to maintain the room at 79 degrees when unoccuppied. However, a special event might have requested the room during that period and another part-time worker made a change in the HVAC system for the event. Before the blog, another part-time worker might come in and notice that the room was suddenly at 72 degrees instead of the scheduled 79 degrees, so they would change it back to the normal schedule. This frustrated clients and employees who had made arrangements, perhaps months in advance. Now, the part-time workers can investigate the blog to determine why a change was entered.

So, hopefully this will give some ideas on how blogs can be used in the context of a business environment! Great idea!