Comments on: Inconvenient WSSv3 RSS Feeds

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:47:58 +0000

@Greg: You could do it with Regular Expressions but you might as well try using XmlDocument or XDocument. If you're not familiar with Regular Expressions the later might be a better solution.

By: Greg Robinson

Greg Robinson — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:37:58 +0000

Do you have an example of how to do this: "Using some simple Regular Expressions you could grab the contents of the not-anymore-title-column and paste it between the element of the RSS Feed item."

I am trying to customize the RssXslt.aspx page to render my RSS feeds without links to the display forms for my publishing site, but I am having no luck. Your solution logically makes sense but I can't quite wrap my head round it.

Thanks.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:31:54 +0000

@dexy: thanks for the tip :D

By: dexy

dexy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:10:17 +0000

Bugger, it didn't like the XML I put in, I replaced the gt's and lt's with HTML chars, hope it works this time:

(original BaseName SchemaXML)

(new BaseName SchemaXML)

By: dexy

dexy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:05:45 +0000

Hi Waldek,
I was battling for a solution to this problem for a while, and was considering implementing one of your suggestions, but then I went digging with Reflector.
Found out that the DisplayName property which you mentioned is being used is actually reading the string from a field called "BaseName", which is a computed field – not part of the ContentType, it's just a field added straight on the list (I guess it's a "Document Library" field).

So, after investigating why BaseName was returning the filename instead of the title, I decided modification of the computed value would be a good solution. I couldn't find anything that would require BaseName to have the document's filename.. so off I went on a SchemaXML 'hacking' trip.

The original schemaXML for the BaseName field looks like this:
1

I wrote a simple little C# WinForms app which changed the SchemaXML to this:
1

I didn't think it would work at first, but after setting that SchemaXML, the RSS feeds now display the titles of the items!! Awesome! I couldn't find any side-effects of my change either..

Here's the C# I used:
SPField bnfld = list.Fields.GetFieldByInternalName("BaseName");
if (bnfld != null)
{
bnfld.SchemaXml = @"1";
bnfld.Update();
}

You just need an SPList object (list variable), of the list (well, library) you want to fix the RSS titles for.