--- title: "How to Add RSS Reader to Microsoft Teams" description: "Step-by-step guide to using the Vitextra RSS Reader in Microsoft Teams: publishing the app from the SharePoint App Catalog, adding it as a tab in a channel with its own feeds, adding it as a personal app, saving the default configuration that the personal app uses for everybody, pinning it with an app setup policy, and what to check if the feeds do not appear." url: https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10372 language: en published: 2026-10-31 modified: 2026-10-30 products: - "RSS Reader" author: "Lidija Reising" tags: ["RSS Reader Microsoft Teams", "RSS feed Teams tab", "RSS personal app Teams", "add RSS to Teams channel", "news feed in Microsoft Teams", "Sync to Teams SPFx", "Teams app setup policy pin app", "Vitextra RSS Reader Teams", "Save Settings personal app configuration"] --- # How to Add RSS Reader to Microsoft Teams Step-by-step guide to using the Vitextra RSS Reader in Microsoft Teams: publishing the app from the SharePoint App Catalog, adding it as a tab in a channel with its own feeds, adding it as a personal app, saving the default configuration that the personal app uses for everybody, pinning it with an app setup policy, and what to check if the feeds do not appear. ## Introduction Many teams follow their industry news in Microsoft Teams rather than on the intranet. [RSS Reader](https://vitextra.com/en/products/rss-news) ships as a Teams application, so the same aggregated feeds can live where the team works: as a **tab in a channel** β€” a project team's news wall with its own sources β€” or as a **personal app** in the left rail, with one configuration for everybody in the organization. This article covers the three steps: making the app available in Teams, adding it as a channel tab or a personal app, and saving the configuration that the personal app uses. It assumes that the RSS Reader package has already been deployed to the ::App Catalog:: of your tenant (see [KB10035. How to Install a Vitextra Product in SharePoint Online](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10035)). πŸ“ **Note** RSS Reader in Teams is the same SharePoint Framework web part that runs on SharePoint pages. It needs no API permissions, and one license per tenant covers SharePoint and Teams alike. ## Prerequisites - To publish the app to Teams you need to manage the SharePoint App Catalog β€” typically the **SharePoint Administrator** role. - To add the published app as a personal app no special permissions are needed, as long as your Teams administrator allows custom apps built for your organization. - To add a channel tab you need to be a member of the team; team owners may restrict who can add tabs. - To save the default configuration of the personal app you need to edit a SharePoint page that contains the web part. ## Step 1. Make the app available in Teams 1. Open the [Microsoft 365 admin center](https://admin.microsoft.com), go to the **SharePoint admin center**, select **More features** and click **Open** under **Apps**. 2. On the **Manage apps** page, select the **Vitextra RSS Reader** package and click **Add to Teams**. (In the classic **Apps for SharePoint** library the same command is **Sync to Teams** on the **FILES** tab of the ribbon.) ![Adding the package to Teams from the App Catalog](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10372/add-to-teams-en.png) *Adding the package to Teams from the App Catalog* The app is published to your organization's Teams app store under the name **RSS** (*Vitextra RSS Reader*). It remains linked to the SharePoint package: a new version installed in the App Catalog is used in Teams as well, see [KB10050. How to Update a Vitextra SPFx Solution in SharePoint Online](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10050). πŸ“ **Note** Alternatively, a Teams administrator can upload the Teams app package manually in the Teams admin center under **Teams apps β†’ Manage apps β†’ Upload new app**. The package is the `TeamsSPFxApp.zip` file included with the product. **Add to Teams** is the simpler route and is recommended. ## Step 2. Add RSS Reader as a channel tab A channel tab has its **own** sources and settings, independent of other channels and of the personal app β€” the right choice for a team that follows a specific set of feeds. 1. Open the team and the channel, and click **+** in the tab bar. 2. Find **RSS** in the list of apps (use the search box) and select it. 3. Click **Add** (or **Save**). The tab opens together with the property pane of the web part. 4. In the **Newsfeed** group, click **Configure** and enter the feeds of the team; set the layout and the other options in the **Appearance** and **Behavior** groups; close the property pane. The options are the same as on a SharePoint page and are described in [KB10367. How to Add and Configure the RSS Reader Web Part](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10367). ![RSS Reader as a channel tab](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10372/channel-tab-en.png) *RSS Reader as a channel tab* A team owner can change the settings later with **Settings** in the tab's menu. The tab's sources are stored with the tab; they are not affected by **Save Settings** (see step 4). ## Step 3. Add RSS Reader as a personal app 1. In Microsoft Teams, click **Apps** in the left rail. 2. Select **Built for your org** β€” this is where apps published from your own App Catalog appear. 3. Find the **RSS** tile published by Vitextra and open it. 4. Click **Add** (not *Add to a team*). The app appears in the left rail and shows the feeds configured by the administrator (step 4). The personal app has no property pane: users read, switch sources, filter and search, but cannot change the feeds. πŸ’‘ **Tip** Adding the app this way pins it only for the person who clicked **Add**. To put RSS Reader into the left rail of everybody, or of a group of users, a Teams administrator adds it to an **app setup policy** in the Teams admin center (**Teams apps β†’ Setup policies β†’ Pinned apps**). ## Step 4. Save the configuration for the personal app The personal app reads a **default configuration** that an administrator saves once for the tenant. Until it is saved, the personal app shows the sample feeds of the web part. 1. Open any SharePoint page that contains an RSS Reader web part in edit mode (or add the web part to a test page), and configure it exactly as the personal app should look: the feeds, their names and order, the layout, the switches, the sort order and the refresh. 2. Open the property pane, expand the **Personal app (Microsoft Teams)** group and click **Save Settings**. 3. Wait for the message *Saved successfully.* ![Saving the configuration for the personal app](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10372/save-settings-en.png) *Saving the configuration for the personal app* What is saved: the sources, the layout, the **Items Shown** value, the **Image**, **Filters**, **Category** and **Search box** switches, the sort order and the auto refresh settings β€” everything except the web part title. The configuration is stored by the Vitextra service for your tenant and product, so it does not depend on the page you used to save it; you can remove the web part from the test page afterwards. Saving again overwrites the previous configuration, and the personal app picks the change up the next time a user opens it. ❗ **Important** **Save Settings** affects the personal app only. Channel tabs keep their own sources, and SharePoint pages are never changed by it. Conversely, editing the web part on a page does not change the personal app until you click **Save Settings** again. ## If the feeds do not appear in Teams - **The app is missing from Built for your org** β€” the package has not been added to Teams (step 1), or your Teams administrator blocks custom apps. Check **Teams apps β†’ Manage apps** in the Teams admin center: the app *RSS* must be present and allowed. - **The personal app shows the sample feeds** β€” no configuration has been saved yet; perform step 4. - **The personal app shows old feeds after you changed the page** β€” **Save Settings** was not clicked after the change; the personal app does not read the page. - **A channel tab is empty** β€” open **Settings** in the tab's menu and check that at least one source is configured in **Sources**. - ***Sorry, something went wrong…*** β€” the Teams client could not reach the Vitextra feed service; make sure `vitextra.com` is reachable from the users' network (see [KB10373. Why Doesn't My RSS Feed Load? Troubleshooting RSS Reader](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10373)). - **The license message instead of the items** β€” the trial has ended or no license is assigned to the tenant; see [KB10365. Why Does a Vitextra Web Part Show "We Hope You Enjoyed Your Free Trial"? License Messages and Fixes](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10365). ## Theme and mobile RSS Reader follows the light and dark themes of the Teams client, and the layout adapts to the width of the tab: the Cards layout shows fewer columns in a narrow window and one column in the Teams mobile app. Articles open in the browser of the device.