Questions tagged [feature-activation]
A feature-activation is a process which makes a feature active programatically, using power shell or through a web interface. A feature needs to be active in order to be used.
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How would a Web Application feature knows on activation that which web app its supposed to run on
Scenario can be read on My other Question
Further to that question, why would a web application has timer job definition that it hasn't been deployed to.
this is the code I am using for feature ...
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workflow inactive - after deployment?
my workflow is deployed through the following script in SharePoint 2010:
# Set CurrentDirectory
$callingDir = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
[Environment]::CurrentDirectory = $...
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Problem activating feature on child webs
I have a feature that is manually activated. In a feature receiver I also activate the feature on any child SPWebs in existence. I would like some code to run only on the SPWeb where the feature is ...
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Feature Activation with Powershell
I am looking for a good example of powershell script for SP2010 with which I could activate my features with prior check if feature has been deployed (some are "web" and some are "site" scoped. Could ...
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How to activate infopath services for sharepoint site
I want to work with infopath services available in sharepoint 2010 environment.
My machine has inforpath designer and filler 2010. When I went to site collection features --> Sharepoint server ...
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Sandbox solutions - Prevent auto activation of site collection features
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Does anyone know a way to activate a sandbox solution in SharePoint Online without having the site collection features automatically activated?
Background info:
I have done a bit of ...
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Custom delegate is applied even if the feature is deactivated
I have a question regarding a feature.
Situation:
I have a feature that is farm scoped, with this feature I deploy a delegate control (xml file), this file refers to cs code.
So I've added that file ...
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How do I configure styles and layout of a Summary Link Web Part using code?
I have successfully added a Summary Link Web Part as a feature and want to configure the styles and layout of it, including:
The default style for new links
The group header style
The number of ...
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How to catch the feature activate time
I am trying to write one program such that, when ever a feature is activated then it should display the activated time in the sharepoint list. for that i written following code.
public class ...
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"Service too busy" exception occurrs when trying to programmatically activate a sandbox feature with an attached feature receiver
The title says it all... I am trying to programmatically activate some sandbox features (from within a feature reciver that is also part of the sandbox solution). And whilst the features without ...
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Site Scope Feature dependent on a Web Scope Feature
On the root web for my site collection I need to make sure a web scope feature is turned on. In the feature EventReceiver I can turn on the feature progamtically. How can I stop the user turning the ...
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how to remove a published content type from subscribed site collections
I have a small Visual Studio 2010 project with one farm level feature that I deploy to a site collection which is configured as my content type hub. The FeatureActivated event adds a site column and ...
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Feature not activated by default
I have a SP2010 wsp that contains multiple features all are scoped "web" all was working fine. But suddenly one of the feature stopped activating by default on deployment though all other features are ...
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When Re-activating Feature, All Content Shows Up Twice
Let me preface this by saying that I am brand new to Sharepoint, so the answer to this question may be obvious.
I have a blog feature on one of my Sharepoint sites that I need to make changes to. ...
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Problem Setting Item Level Permissions Dynamically
I am working with SharePoint 2010 feature receivers. On feature activation I am creating multiple web part pages in library "Site Pages". I want to set individual permissions for each page, but I want ...
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Deploy solution using powershell
I have a solution with 4 projects to automatically some processes in Sharepoint.these projects are:
WebPartProject: Create a custom webpart
CreateTemplate: Create 2 documents libraries (with columns),...
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Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.225 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime
So, the story is the following:
I just joined a team of an existing sharepoint project, sharepoint is installed RTM on all environments, from DEV to production.
But because its 2 companies working ...
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How does SP resolve web.config modifications?
Specifically, if my code makes a change to the web.config to enable the ScriptResource.axd HttpHandler, and then another third party app comes along and also 'adds' the config entry (it doesn't add a ...
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How can I make sure the features in my solution activate in the correct order?
I'm working on a fairly large SharePoint 2010 project. We have broken up the code into a number of solutions, each containing a number of features which we deploy via powershell and activate in the ...
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Site is Provisioned but Content Type List is still empty
I have this feature that I am trying to run in order to configure a site, this feature among other things creates pages based on content types, etc. The problem I am facing is that every time i am ...
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Is SPFeatureCollection.Add method asynchronous?
I have a quite complex application that is split into several features.
In order to hide this complexity, I set the IsHidden property of the feature to true, then have created a "master" feature. ...
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Unable to delete List during solution deactivate
I have two list that I need to delete when a solution is deactivated and removed. But my code doesn't seems to be working. I am trying to delete and remove the quicklinks to the lists in ...
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Feature not activating after sharepoint 2007 upgrade to sharepoint 2010
After the 2007 to 2010 SharePoint upgrade i have taken notice that when i try to activate a feature under the site collection admin for a root site page and also with manage site features i keep on ...
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"Master" feature?
I'm building a complex application that is composed by multiples features of different kind.
I want to avoid having all features individually able to be activated from the site admin page.
What my ...
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Custom Site Content type is not getting mapped for the required taxonomy field
I have a custom project site template which is coded in c#.net VS 2010, I have deployed the projects related to the project site template into central admin through VS
After deploying the solution I ...
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Hooking feature reciever issue
I have invalidly hooked feature reciever. Feature has two configuration files The first, SharePoint looks like this:
< feature xmlns:dm0="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2008/DslTools/...
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List Instances not created on Feature Activation for Initial Deployment
I have two features, a Content Type feature that contains the content type and list definitions, and a List feature that creates the List Instances from the list definitions. Both features auto-...
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Using a feature receiver to add a directory to the web applications folder
Wondering if someone knows how to add a directory/folder to the web applications folder within IIS using a feature event receiver (FeatureActivated).
Any help appreciated.
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Access Denied when activating features implementing SPFeatureReceiver?
We've developed several features who implement the SPFeatureReceiver interface. When trying this out in the development environment it first failed until I found this script from the MSDN:
function ...
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Cant´t activate a custom feature with PowerShell but with the GUI
I want to activate a custom feature with PowerShell on a few sites in my environment.
When I´m doing this job over the GUI, everything is perfect.
But when I´, doing it with my script, the feature ...
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Can i use SPLongOperation in FeatureActivating?
I have a feature that upgrades and updates an existing site to a new and improved version of that site. One of the tasks of the feature is to upgrade existing data in the site. For simple test/dev ...
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How to activate feature using powershell script?
I need to activate specific feature to all site collection which is inside the particular web application using powershell script?
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Listadded events on My Site omits Personal and Shared Documents creation
I want to have a feature which will change some settings on every list on My Site. Problem is i cant change settings for two main list: Shared and Personal Documents.
For testing I have web feature ...
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Сan't programmaticaly activate the Publishing Feature for the Blog site
I'm developed a solution for stapling features. in my solution are located two projects, one project contains a module which consist the id features, what I want to attach to the sites collections and ...
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Activate Feature in Powershell and specify custom properties
I want to activate a feature with custom properties. It is easy to do in onet.xml by providing Properties:
<Feature ID=“78277796-98D9-4276-B7D2-E3374AAC43D8“>
<Properties>
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Errors when attempting to install a sharepoint 2010 feature
I'm attempting to install and activate a feature containing a Timer Job. When I execute the install-spfeature cmdlet I get the following error. What is the source of my error?
PS C:\Users\crmadmin>...
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removing a sharepoint solution duplicates entry in web.config?
My intentions is to be able to add and remove web.config changes when a solution is installed or uninstalled.
The code below and the powershell below works ALMOST as expected.
When I add sp solution,...
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Add custom sharepoint feature to solution
i customized the OSearchBasicFeature inside 14/template/features/ to have a pretty search-box. Since i want to customize my SharePoint only through deploying a package i was wondering how i'm able to ...
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Can't activate feature because of an existing column in a child site
I have a site collection without the publishing feature activated (Id: f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa).
I want to activate it, but it fails :
Enable-SPFeature : The field with Id {51d39414-...
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Error on Activate Features on deploying SharePoint Skin
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I just can't figure out where the error is occuring. Found some blog posts concerning the ...
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FeatureActivated not called for Site Template
We have an web-level feature that when you activate it will change the master pages used by the web to point to a .master page in the rootweb of the site collection.
This feature has been activated ...
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What to do on feature deletion/deactivation
as I am trying to wrap my head around silverlight and sharepoint there's one thing I find most irritating: Provisioned xap-Files and/or web-Parts remain fully active upon deactivation/uninstallation ...
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Custom list Feature problems
I created a custom list definition, which works well.
When i deploy, the list definition is added, when i retract, the list definition retracts properly.
I also created a list instance from said ...
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Using templates from a site under 'My Site'?
One of our customers has created a My Site area (with default settings), and then created a new site 'TestSite' in their content area. When they try to create a new site in another My Site area (on ...
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Sharepoint 2010, templates and Features
I have been trying to create site templates from a local SP2010 server that can be used by a client for some custom content. The problem is all the "the site template requires that the feature be ...
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Provision Web Part Page from Module with SetupPath?
Is it possible to provision a Web Part Page using a Module element with a SetupPath specified, rather than a Path specified? For example, if I wanted to create a module to provision a page from: ...
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How do you activate a feature on promotion?
When promoting a wsp and you have 1 or more features you wish to activate as soon as promoted, how do you do so without manually activating them on the site they are deployed to?
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Is it possible to export a site workflow?
If I have a Site Workflow on my development machine, what's the best way to deploy it onto the production system which is hosted on Microsoft SharePoint Online?
I have found a way of doing it which ...
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Setting customErrors attribute
When activating a feature on a site I am getting a Runtime Error page that indicates to set customError mode attribute to Off in order to see the error.
I have changed the web.config in my IIS folder ...
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Event receiver feature update
I am developing an event receiver in VS2010. To test the event receiver I deploy it to development using the functionality within VS 2010. This works without problems.
However my concerns start when ...