Failed with 0x80004005 to create the view query or web parts for web

Question

Feature 1 creates Site Columns

Feature 2 creates Content Type and adds the site columns created by feature1

Feature 3 creates a List definition for mylist

I have two Web tempaltes. I have added following List view to both onet.xml

<View List="Lists/mylist" BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="2"  />

for one of them it works but for another one it generates

Failed with 0x80004005 to create the view query or web parts for web

I thought maybe features activates randomly and feature 3 actives before 2 and 1. I activated them programmatically one by one but still when I crate new site by powershell one of webtemplates works not another one.

Answer 1

Medes,

If its just about feature-activation, you can define feature activation dependency on the later features... Feature Activation dependency means the feature is dependant on other features for its activation, you can see here how you can do this: http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/feature-activation-dependencies-in-visual-studio-2010/

And more details on Feature Activation dependency can be found here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=607