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Public folder RSS Feed Event sink

I've gone a bit RSS mad of late for today's edition I created an Event sink for public folders so when a new mail or post arrives into that folder it will fire a script that updates a feed with the last 7 days of posts. I guess the cool thing here is you can stick this on all the important public folders in your org and then use one web page to aggregate across all the feeds and present this back to the user as one single web page. Also it lets people subscribe to folders and receive notification of updates etc.



Sub ExStoreEvents_OnSave(pEventInfo, bstrURLItem, lFlags)

on error resume next
set DispEvtInfo = pEventInfo
set ADODBRec = DispEvtInfo.EventRecord
set objdom = CreateObject("MICROSOFT.XMLDOM")
Set objField = objDom.createElement("rss")
Set objattID = objDom.createAttribute("version")
objattID.Text = "2.0"
objField.setAttributeNode objattID
objDom.appendChild objField
Set objField1 = objDom.createElement("channel")
objfield.appendChild objField1
Set objField3 = objDom.createElement("title")
objfield3.text = "Public Folder Feed"
objfield1.appendChild objField3
Set objField4 = objDom.createElement("link")
objfield1.appendChild objField4
Set objField5 = objDom.createElement("description")
objfield5.text = "Public Folder Feed For Path"
objfield1.appendChild objField5
Set objField6 = objDom.createElement("language")
objfield6.text = "en-us"
objfield1.appendChild objField6
Set objField7 = objDom.createElement("lastBuildDate")
objfield7.text = formatdatetime(now(),1) & " " & formatdatetime(now(),4) & ":00 GMT"
objfield1.appendChild objField7
Set Rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set msgobj = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
tyear = year(now()-7)
tmonth = month(now()-7)
if tmonth < 10 then tmonth = 0 & tmonth
stday = day(now()-7)
if stday < 10 then stday = 0 & stday
sttime = formatdatetime(now1,4)
qdatest = tyear & "-" & tmonth & "-" & stday & "T"
qdatest1 = qdatest & sttime & ":" & "00Z"
set Rec = CreateObject("ADODB.Record")
set Rec1 = CreateObject("ADODB.Record")
Set Conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
mailboxurl = ADODBRec.fields("Dav:parentname")
Conn.Provider = "ExOLEDB.DataSource"
Rec.Open mailboxurl, ,3
SSql = "SELECT ""DAV:href"", ""DAV:contentclass"", ""urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription"", ""urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived"", "
SSql = SSql & """urn:schemas:httpmail:fromemail"", ""urn:schemas:httpmail:subject"", ""DAV:ishidden"" "
Ssql = SSql & " FROM scope('shallow traversal of """ & mailboxurl & """') "
SSql = SSql & " WHERE (""urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived"" > CAST(""" & qdatest1 & """ as 'dateTime')) AND ""DAV:isfolder"" = false"
Rs.CursorLocation = 3 'adUseServer = 2, adUseClient = 3
Rs.CursorType = 3
rs.open SSql, rec.ActiveConnection, 3
if Rs.recordcount <> 0 then
Rs.movefirst
while not rs.eof
if rs.fields("DAV:ishidden") = 0 then
Set objField2 = objDom.createElement("item")
objfield1.appendChild objField2
Set objField8 = objDom.createElement("title")
objfield8.text = rs.fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:subject")
objfield2.appendChild objField8
Set objField9 = objDom.createElement("link")
objfield9.text = "http://mgnms01/public" _
& right(Rs.fields("Dav:href"),(len(Rs.fields("Dav:href"))-instr(Rs.fields("Dav:href"),"/Public Folders/"))-14)
objfield2.appendChild objField9
Set objField10 = objDom.createElement("description")
objfield10.text = Rs.fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription")
objfield2.appendChild objField10
Set objField11 = objDom.createElement("author")
objfield11.text = rs.fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:fromemail")
objfield2.appendChild objField11
Set objField12 = objDom.createElement("pubDate")
objfield12.text = formatdatetime(rs.fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived"),1) _
& " " & formatdatetime(rs.fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived"),4) & ":00 GMT"
objfield2.appendChild objField12
set objfield2 = nothing
set objfield8 = nothing
set objfield9 = nothing
set objfield10 = nothing
set objfield11 = nothing
end if
rs.movenext
wend
end if
rs.close
Set objPI = objDom.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0'")
objDom.insertBefore objPI, objDom.childNodes(0)
objdom.save("d:\inetpub\wwwroot\pubfolder1.xml")

End Sub

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