Hi there,
I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to create some sort of slideshow based on iamges taht are stored in a SharePoint picture library. I'm using WSS 3.0, so I have the integrated RSS feed fo rthe library. And I've turned on the feature to include file enclosures. I jsut can't seem to get it to pull any of the iamges out.
Any ideas
Thanks.
Jimmy 
How's the site handling authentication basic/digest/windows etc
Also could you share the mashup As it's probably the easiest way to get a better understanding of what's going on, thanks :-)
I'm not sure about that one. The SharePoint site has it's own people/groups access permissions and there doesn't appear to be an "anonymous user" account to add, at least in the deployment I'm on. (don't have control of that).
I can add a user and assign username/password and give "read" permissions to all SharePoint site content. Is there a block that can pass authentication credentials to the mashup
It depends on how the auth is done if it's throught active directory that could be somewhat tricky however if it's through HTTP Basic Auth then it's possible if you edit a block and add a header defined http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#BasicAA to add a header you would need to:
var header = [new Header("key", "value")];
environmen.getXML(url, header);
The short answer is that we aren't really setup to do authentication as the mashups run from anonymous context.
I too am facing a similar problem - I can't seem to pull any pictures out of Sharepoint Picture Libraries via RSS. The site is internet facing with anonymous access enabled. I've tried various portions of the RSS feed to feed directly into the Carousel block, and also tried with the ImageScrapper. I do get the captions of the pictures, but not the actual pictures from the Library.
Let me know if you need more information to help troubleshoot.
Thanks!
http://explosivegraffix.com/Graphics%20and%20Designs%20Gallery/Forms/AllItems.aspx
On an unrelated note, would you happen to know why the RSS feed only displays a subset of all the items in the library Does it have something to do with when the images were posted
immy79 wrote:
Hey there,
The first thing you'll want to do is embed the item in the RSS feed. You can do this by going to Settings > Picture Library Settings, then go to RSS Feed Settings. You can switch that on in there. When connecting the feed to one of the iamge display block, link it to the "link" field.
AS for not seeing all items, that has to do with the number of days to display items in the RSS feed. That's on the same settings screen as above, down towards the bottom. Just set that to a really high number, like 999.
Hope this helps.
Jimmy
Oh my gosh, that's it - thank you! Why didn't I think of messing with the RSS settings to begin with I guess that's why I shouldn't be working on this at 2am in the morning... And I call myself a Sharepoint developer too 