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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Sharepoint Event Recievers Feature Activation
I am trying to create an event reciever based off an example created by a previous employee. This event reciever is scoped for the site level and is a ListItem event reciever.
I believe I have ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Invalid field name
SharePoint Error message Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Invalid field name.{guid}
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Error while activating custom feature
I have a wsp package installed as farm solution. package has event reciever on activating feature. When I go to Site Collection Features and activate this feature i get an error
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File ...
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Execute SPFeatureReceiver only on site creation
We have recently upgraded from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 and we aren't yet ready to train users on the new interface, so I've created a SPFeatureReceiver that will set the site template back to the 2007 ...
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How can I find the Feature Activation Dependency Powershell
I am running a recursive function that activates many features in powershell however I need to find the child feature a feature is dependent on before it is activated. How can I do this in powershell.
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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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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'xxxxx-xxx' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope
while installing a feature, VS ouput the error:
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'xxxxxxx-xxxx' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope. ...
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Site-level fields created by the Community Site features and its dependencies must not be removed
I get this error: Site-level fields created by the Community Site features and its dependencies must not be removed. when trying to create a Community Site or Active the Community Site Feature, ...
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Enable-SPFeature doesn't work, but activation via Site Settings does. Why?
I have a weird problem... I'm trying to deploy a sharepoint solution in production. This project works fine in the test environment, but in production trying to enable the feature returns this error:
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SPUtility.GetLocalizedString not working in feature receiver when deployed from Visual Studio
I use SPUtility.GetLocalizedString in FeatureActivated method of a feature receiver to add a label to a custom action on a specific list instance.
When activating feature from SharePoint or ...
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Strange issue with feature activation
I'm having a problem while activating a feature. I have a custom dll that I referenced in this new project, and I'm trying to execute some code on the feature activation. The problem is that I get the ...
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How to activate TaxonomyFieldAdded feature in Sharepoint Online
I might have stumbled over a huge "gotcha" in SharePoint Online. Currently on the E3 plan.
I have created a site collection from the "Blank Site" template (not wanting a cluttered workspace), and ...
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List View Webpart is not getting added while activating feature using powershell
I created a feature and on activation of it I am trying to add list view webpart.
Using powershell command activating feature and it gets activated but List View Web part it is not getting added on to ...
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Cannot enable feature with feature receiver via PowerShell
I have a problem where I can enable a feature from the UI and code in FeatureActivated method works as expected. However, if I try to enable the feature via powershell as a scripted deployment, the ...
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Feature Activation Error(Cannot Add Dll to GAC)
We have created a feature, which has 2 application pages. One is to activate the user control and the other one is for database configuration. For the database configuration, the user has to provide ...
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Sharepoint 2010 failed to apply web.config modifications to Web Application
I have a SharePoint solution deployed into a specific web application on the production SharePoint site.
When I try to enable the feature from the site features in Site Settings I get an error saying ...
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Activating a WebApplication scoped feature on a single web app touches all web app web.configs
I have a WebApplication scoped feature, and I have set ActivateOnDefault to false, to prevent the feature from being activated on every web application when installed.
The feature is a simple ...
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SPListCollection.EnsureSitePagesLibrary() throwing SPException (specified title already exists in this Web site)
I am attempting to call SPListCollection.EnsureSitePagesLibrary() upon FeatureActivated. The method is throwing the following exception:
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: A list, survey, ...
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“Thread abort exception” in event receiver after adding a solution?
I am developing an event receiver for the web provisioned event. It does quite a few things, culminating to add and deploying a solution and activating a feature from it.
When I do the following:
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error creating blog subsite in code
Im creating a blog subsite in the featureactivated event but it errors out everytime i activate the feature. looking at the logs i can see there is an access denied entry however the blog subsite is ...
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Does the SPField.OnAdded() method get called from a CAML deployment?
If I create a custom list definition and instance in CAML, as part of a feature, and I have included a custom field as part of that list, will that field's OnAdded() method get called when the feature ...
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How can I activate a wsp solution uploaded to solution gallery via code in SharePoint 2013
I'm creating a site definition which provisions a subsite based to a webtemplate(wsp) file. This webtemplate file is packed in a feature containing a module.When the feature is activated the wsp file ...
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How do I fix the error “Expression must evaluate to a node-set” setting web.config entries?
I'm trying to update web.config in SharePoint when the feature is activated. I have created Event receiver. The code inside receiver is:
public override void ...
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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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Error activating ShrePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature
I have installed SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition in Windows Azure. After successful installation and configuration,I created a web application. When I tried to activate SharePoint Server ...
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Getting SPWeb in feature receiver
While testing my solution I receive an error on Feature activation:
Detected use of SPRequest for previously closed SPWeb object. Please close SPWeb objects when you are done with all objects ...
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Add script reference to all pages in a site collection when a feature is activated
I'd like to have a feature which adds a script reference to all pages in a site collection when activated.
This seems like a scenario where I should just modify the master page, but for it to affect ...
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Feature Activated Event not triggered when creating a new sub site with web template
When I create a new site I have a Web Scoped FeatureActivated event that I would like to run. The feature does get Activated but the FeatureActivated event is not triggered.
The site is created with ...
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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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Can't find WebApplication scoped feature
I've deployed a wsp that has 2 features. The one scoped at a web level is listed where I'd expect to see it and activates without a problem. The feature scoped at a web application can't be found ...
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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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Set Record Declaration Settings programmatically
I created a feature receiver whereby on activation will activate and set certain features and its properties. One of that feature is InPlaceRecords. Below is my code in the FeatureActivated method:-
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Getting SPWeb Object in two ways
I want to access SPWeb object in feature under its FeatureActivated method. There are two ways to do this:
Public Override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
//Method 1
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Convert site to a publishing site
I need to activate publishing features on certain sites without losing their site content (lists and libraries). The publishing feature is activated in site collection. When I try to activate the ...
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Why do i have to activate my web features before i can create a website
I have created a web template using visual studio 2010, it has two features.
Feature1 - Contains WebTemplate element (scoped site)
Feature2 - Contains List Definitions (scoped web)
I package, upload ...
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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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SharePoint 2010: How to control order in which web features are applied
We have a site defined in onet.xml.
The site has 5 features: some standard, some custom.
One of the standard ones is the team site. On activation of our feature we would link to copy files into the ...
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Disable auto activate feature
I have a really strange behaviour, I'm working with SharePoint 2007 and I have a feature web application scoped, and i don't want it automatically being activated on deploying the solution, but it ...
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Unable to get list “Calendar” list in feature while creating site
I want to create custom calendar list programatically.
SPListTemplate template = web.ListTemplates["Calendar"];
var newListID = web.Lists.Add(fromTitle, description, template);
But i cannot do ...
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How to programmatically get Feature ID?
In order to programmatically activate a feature, you need its Feature ID (some type of GUID) that is set in the .feature file. Is there a pretty way of retrieving this value programmatically, so that ...
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Associate my custom feature to default publishing site template with FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation
I want to have an event receiver on site collection creation, but it is not available. So as an alternative way i think of writing a custom feature, and associating it with the default publishing site ...
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Enable-SPFeature not working
I am using PowerShell script to deploy and activate a feature in the same script. Everything works fine and I can see my feature in the Sharepoint Root folder (14 hive).
I run it using Farm Admin.
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How do i create a feature in web template?
I have created a web template in visual studio, it includes the standard element file and onet file, it also has a feature which is scoped to site level.
All this works fine, i can deploy it and can ...
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Automatically Activate Feature when subsite created
I have created a web template with 2 features, one is scoped site (to create web template) and the other is scoped web (this is for creating a list instance)
Every time i deploy the solution and ...
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Failed to load receiver assembly when activate feature
I have a problem when activating a Site scoped feature. Every time I try to activate the solution with STSADM or Powershell I get this error:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server ...
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Access exceptions when trying to add a content type to list
In the following method, 'list' is simply an SPList ("Documents"). I'm attempting to add ContentTypes to the list and then update it. This code is found in the FeatureActivated event of an event ...
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Difference betweeen SPSite.Features.Add(…) and SPWeb.Features.Add(…)
I have created a Feature named Feature1. Feature1 is activated in a SharePoint site. I create a Web Part that contains the following code.
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://intranet/site1");
SPWeb ...
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rootWeb.AllProperties[“__InheritsCustomMasterUrl”] = “True”; not working
I am developing a branding project, in this project i have custom master page, i can successfully deploy it and automatically apply to the root web. But i want all the subsites inherit the master page ...
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How to activate feature in a custom site
I have created a publishing web template. Now I need to activate a feature once the site is provisioned.
In order to achieve this, I've created an event receiver with something like this:
public ...
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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 ...
