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I created a content type and deployed it as a feature. It shows up in the root site. I cannot attach it to the Task list in a sub site. I created a console app (code from MS) and tried to add it programatically. The message "The content type is not available in this site" appears. How can I make a content type available to a subsite? I thought it would be available by default to all subsites, especially being in the root. When I ran the console app, I was logged in as the system account on the SP server, so it shouldn't be a permissions thing. The content type has a parent of Workflow Task.

I have been struggling with this for over two weeks.

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go to features and click the features/feature name/.feature and change the scope up from site to web and it should work fine.

To improve my answer here is the MSDN on scope and content type

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I'll give it a try. Thanks! – Steve W Sep 10 '12 at 16:46
Bummer. I get the error: "Elements of the type 'Content Type' are not supported at the 'Web' scope. This feature could not be installed. – Steve W Sep 10 '12 at 17:42
To quote msdn I linked "Although you can create a content type with a Feature that is scoped either Site or Web, the scope must be Site if you are also provisioning files (such as document templates) with the same Feature." – Hugh Wood Sep 10 '12 at 17:50
ok. This is a pretty basic content type but it inherits from the Workflow Task type. I don't know if that is the problem. My content type is made up of an elements and feature xml file. I'll keep digging around. Thanks. – Steve W Sep 10 '12 at 18:27
Got your link and it would have been helpful to state I am on MOSS 2007. Checked the same MSDN page but for 2007 and the web scope is "No". – Steve W Sep 10 '12 at 19:24
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I was able to make the content type available to the task list in the sub site by adding the following to the feature.xml file: 

<Properties>
    <Property Key="GloballyAvailable" Value="True" />
</Properties>
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