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 do you “stop” activating a feature within the feature receiver?
I have a feature receiver with some long running code, hence I use SPLongOperation and delegate for better visual appearance. Basically my feature receiver looks like so:
public override void ...
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Activating and deactivating publishing feature breaks SP2010 wikis?
I have created an Enterprise Wiki site on SharePoint 2010.
I have added some pages to the wiki - that worked fine.
By default, it seems that an Enterprise Wiki has publishing turned off. If I ...
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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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Identify moss features from GUID
We are using a site definition and it has 3 feature dependencies that we are struggling to identify:
<ActivationDependency FeatureId="7EDD3C9C-8AC6-4ab5-A209-30B5DC422464" />
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Error activating feature
I have created a solution package for Sharepoint 2007 and have installed and deployed it on a development server. However, when I go to activate it through Site Features, I'm given a lovely page of ...
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Create Site Column (lookup type)
Is there any solid (proven) method of creating Site columns (lookups) where list GUID is not known?
I think this is where feature activation kicks in; getting the lookup list by its name and then ...
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Access denied when adding web application features programmatically
My goal is to programmatically activate a Web Application scoped feature. I'm running this code from a feature receiver of a Web scoped feature. I'm logged in as a Farm Administrator. My app pool ...
