Create an RSS feed in Notes/Domino 8 with XML

In your Lotus Notes view, the following tags make up the structure of each item/row in the RSS feed:

1. Item tag
2. Link tag
3. Description
4. Publish date
5. Author

The idea behind this is to have each document that's created in the Notes view render its values as XML tags to generate RSS feed items. You'll need to make sure that the view property Treat view contents as HTML is enabled.

This view will be embedded in the page, which will contain the necessary XML tags for an RSS feed document. Make sure that the Content Type view property is selected as HTML and that Render pass through HTML is also enabled.

This application works in Lotus Notes 8 and higher, as well as Internet Explorer 6. The URL to subscribe to this RSS feed would be the URL of the page. For example: <...

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Here are the Lotus Notes view formulas for the item tags:

• In the first column:
• In the second column:
• In the third column:
• In the fourth column:
• In the fifth column:
• In the sixth column:
• In the seventh column:

The following XML code will appear before the embedded view on the page:

Finally, insert the following code after the embedded view:

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