Enable/Disable The RSS Feed Option For SharePoint List

In this article, I would like to share the steps for how to Enable/Disable the RSS feed option and update the RSS settings for SharePoint List. In a previous article, we saw What is RSS and how to add the RSS web part in SharePoint Site.

Overview of RSS

  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is used for transmitting information across the internet and intranets
  • We can display the information from external sites by adding the RSS feed web part to the SharePoint page
  • We can use the RSS feed web part to show the news, weather, etc.

In SharePoint, every list has the RSS option but some of us want to hide the RSS option and update the settings for a particular list, here is the solution to hide the RSS option for the SP list.

 RSS option

Steps to Enable/Disable the RSS Feed

Follow the below-listed steps to disable the RSS feed.

Step 1. Open the SharePoint list on your browser.

 Browser

Step 2. Then, go to the List Settings using the top ribbon.

 List Settings

Step 3. On the list settings page select the “RSS settings” option from the Communication category.

Communication category

Step 4. On the Modify RSS Settings page, you can see the below options. There, you can disable the RSS for that list and also, we can update RSS options.

RSS Settings page

Create

Step 5. Select “No” from Allow RSS for this list. When you select “No” the other options will be disabled in the settings screen as shown below.

No

Step 6. Click the “OK” button to save the settings.

Ok

Finally, the RSS option will be disabled for the particular list.

 particular list

Summary

In this article, we have explored how to disable the RSS feed option and update the RSS settings from the SharePoint list.