Make an RSS Feed in Lotus Notes 8

Ever wonder how you could make an RSS feed application in Lotus Notes/Domino?  Well, thanks to Ali Ahmad, there’s an easy solution.

In the Lotus Notes View, the following tags make up the structure of each item/row in the RSS Feed: item tag, link tag, description, publish date, author.  The overall idea is to have each document that’s created in Notes render its values as XML tags to generate RSS feed items.  But, you’ll need to make sure that the view property “Treat view contents as HTML” is enabled.

This application works in Lotus Notes 8 and higher, as well as Internet Explorer 6.  For more on the formulas that are used, click here.