Get the feed of events in your SharePoint 2010 list

SharePoint 2010 has lots of cool new webpart that from what I can tell I just start to uncover. Today, What’s New Webpart  allows you to “connect” to few lists and feed information when items are changed or added in those lists. As an end result you get a sort of a feed of events that are happening.

Here are some of the options you have available out of the box:

From what I gather you can’t extend this webpart so default set of options is all you get to play with. Nevertheless, the functionality is very useful.

Here is how you’d provision this webpart in your feature or site definition:

<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID=”Right” WebPartOrder=”1″><![CDATA[
                    <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
                        <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
                        <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.Applications.GroupBoard.WebPartPages.WhatsNewWebPart</TypeName>
                        <Title>$Resources:WhatsNewWebPartTitle;</Title>
                        <NumItemsPerson xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/GBW/WhatsNew">10</NumItemsPerson>
                        <NumItemsShared xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/GBW/WhatsNew">5</NumItemsShared>
                        <TargetConfig xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/GBW/WhatsNew">${GBWINIT}</TargetConfig>
                    </WebPart>
                    ]]></AllUsersWebPart>

Enjoy!