Living in Outlook: Custom RSS View

re: Custom RSS View

Tom — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:06:01 GMT

Very cool Thanks!

A much better way to view my RSS, any hints on creating a macro for this? I subscribe to many many feeds & it would be very tedious to enable this view on each one of them.

re: Custom RSS View

FirstSalvo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:29:47 GMT

I use RSS a LOT in Outlook. Defining a view is certainly a benefit... thanks! But here's my problem... I have 100+ feeds. I am not going to go to each RSS folder and apply my defined view to each one, that would take all day. I've done it to my 15+ custom search folders, but that took long enough. I can find no way to apply my view to all of my 100+ RSS folders at the same time. Anyone know how?

re: Custom RSS View

Ian — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:37:50 GMT

It would be nice if Outlook would pre-cache inline images so that offline RSS viewing of blogs such as this one would result in content as the writer intended. Is this available in Outlook 2007?

re: Living in Outlook: Custom RSS View

a.k.a. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:10:06 GMT

My guess is an enormous number of Outlook users could also use a tutorial on solving the RSS folder nesting disaster. Can you possibly supply a macro or a way to build a folder tree for the common feeds that stays intact -- after importing and exporting, or between IE and Outlook? Seems to me SyncToy is one avenue, but it doesn't make it much easier. I run both Vista and Server, and need to sync across partitions. RSS continues to be a nightmare in MS apps without that.

I am very reluctant to sound ungrateful, given the work you are doing, but there's never been a response from anyone inside MS on the common feeds limitations. Some of that is an OPML limitation -- no nested folders through OPML, as far as I can see. But MS would hear some real user appreciation if someone could take ownership and supply a workaround.

The tip above is very helpful in and of itself, and I appreciate your having pointed it out. Thanks very much!

re: Living in Outlook: Custom RSS View

Ilya — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:39:36 GMT

Hey, guz, this is all great, but there right now is a fundamental problem - RSS feeds randomly drop off the subsription lists from time to time. Nasty bug; the folders for them stay and just don't get updated. Impossible to manage with any appreciable number of feeds. Hope you fix it in this version and for sure the next.

Btw, off-topic, what happened to the Local Live plug-in for Outlook on MS Download page? It's not found when you attempt to download.

re: Living in Outlook: Custom RSS View

ChrisRomp — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:06:59 GMT

+1 on Ian's comment. I would LOVE to find a way for Outlook to download and cache images for offline reading. I could ditch FeedDemon if I could make this work (one less application).

Thanks,

Chris Romp