RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

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re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

Simon Jackson — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:56:29 GMT

My OPML file contains a nice hierachy for my feeds.
When I import this into IE 7 RC1 the hierarchy is maintained.

However in Outlook 2007 B2TR when it then picks up the feed list from the common feed store in IE 7 RC1 the folder hierarchy is ignored and all the feeds are just listed in alphabetical order.

Is this going to change?
I prefer the feed reading views available to me in Outlook (not least because I sync whether I've read a feed or not between multiple PCs) but not having a folder hierarchy is a real pain.

I guess I can manually create folders in Outlook but will this be remembered in my exports and imports?

re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

Simon Jackson — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:28:41 GMT

At present all feeds have the 'Messages' view by default.
It would be so much better if all RSS feeds were set to a new view called 'RSS Feed' view by default.

That way I would be able to simply define the 'RSS Feed' view the way I like it, and then all my feeds would have this view.

At present, the easiest way to do this is, is 'hi-jack' an existing defined view that I don't use like 'Last seven days'. I alter this and then manually apply it to each feed after I've imported it.

re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

Colin Walker — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:25:07 GMT

I was directed to this post in response to a bug I filed regarding Outlook culling my feed list from approx 200 to just the last 21 in the list.

So, I followed your steps, cleared out numerous folders and re-imported my OPML only for this to happen again - repeatedly.

The bug has unfortunately been closed as not reproducible so I just wonder if it is just something in my test environment that is causing this (B2TR on XPSP2 connecting to Exchange 2003 SP2 on W2k3Server ent. - single server set up so is DC and GC as well).

After importing a lot of feeds and restarting Outlook it also takes a long time to settle down - for example going to Tools - Account Settings warns that Outlook is still searching for shared folders for some considerable time after opening Outlook. The server only has 2 mailboxes (only one of which is used with any regularity) so I can't see it being a resource issue.

re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

Colin Walker — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:30:41 GMT

Just as a side note:

the same cut off of feeds happens if I import the opml in to IE and then sync Outlook with the shared feed list.

re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

Volkan — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:21:56 GMT

Known issues?http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/4586/dialogboxaz7.jpg ; http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5673/dialogbox2my2.jpg

re: RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR

markoh — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:09:58 GMT

MY RSS feeds in Outlook 2007 B2TR are empty. They are working ok in IE7 (final). What could it be?