Creating Site Roll-ups in Sharepoint with RSS

Creating Site Roll-ups in Sharepoint with RSS

"Roll-ups of information from several (top-level or nested) Windows Sharepoint Services sites has been a "nice-to-have" feature mentioned in several Sharepoint projects I've been involved with. Commercial solutions is available in the market, like the CorasWorks package. However these solutions tend to be too expensive to justify.

By using a combination of RSS feed generation and RSS feed consumption webparts (both opensource or freeware) it is possible to create roll-up like functionality with minor configuration effort.

The Leadit.Sharepoint.Services, written by Jan Tielens, provides an RSS feed for every site in the portal, and the SmilingGoat FeedReader displays such feeds in a webpart. (More Sharepoint RSS solutions listed by Daniel here).

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Simple, yet effective, way of creating SharePoint roll-ups.

I like it because it's dual purpose. The subsite RSS feeds can be used individually by interested users as well as for the roll-up. And of course the price is just right...