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Add a new Field to a SharePoint List with XML
i had create a list programmatically on Feature_activated.
Now i want to add a new Field to my list with an XML File on UpgradeActions from the Feature.
I know the solution for add a Field with C#.
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InfoPath form/List for a site still using SharePoint2007 interface inside SharePoint2010 environment. (timeline sensitive)
We recently completed a SharePoint 2007-2010 Migration last year. We have some sites that are using custom branding, and we've kept these sites using the 07 interface in order to prevent any broken ...
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Getting custom form to work in Sharepoint 2010
I built a custom new form for a page and in the schema file I did the following:
<Form Type="NewForm" Url="NewForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
So it looks for my custom form. It works fine ...
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Add custom code for solution upgrade
I have a solution for SP2010. Let's call it s.wsp. I had version 1 of s.wsp and now I have version 2 of s.wsp. Versions 1 and 2 share three common features: A, B and C. Version 2 adds a new feature D.
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What are the PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade risks?
I am about to run the following command in production but I would like a solid understanding of what could break. We ran this command on QA environments, but we don't know if everything is in fact ...
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Update-SPSolution & Items in a Document Library
I have the following situation:
solution1.wsp that has a document library with files inside (I use a module element for adding new files to the feature)
and solution2.wsp that has a document library ...
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Updated feature not deploying NEW web parts when using powershell
I have added a new web part to a feature of existing web parts in a wsp solution. If I manually go to a site collection and deactivate and reactivate the feature via site collection features, the new ...
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Updating existing sharepoint sites?
We have a set of custom site definitions, around 12 in total, that makes up a large sharepoint 2010 intranet application (circa 40,000 sub-sites) that has been deployed for a few years now.
One of ...
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Help understand ContentType/List upgrade
Everywhere i read on the web it says that Content Types and List once deployed through Xml files they cannot be updated anymore.
I have created a VS 2010 solution, created a SharePoint List ...
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How to add a field to a contenttype with feature upgrade, for NEW and existing sites
So, I have been using feature upgrading for a while, it works pretty well for existing instances, but as far as I know feature upgrade does not happen automatically, you need to trigger the upgrade, ...
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Feature upgrade, new item receiver
I need to create an item updating event for an existing list in an existing solution
I just checked and there is already a feature for that, the question here is for this type of upgrade do I need to ...
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How do I add a new ContentType using Feature Upgrading?
I have created a new Content Type. How do I publish it using Update-SPSolution and feature upgrading?
I added the following Code to my Feature Manifest:
<UpgradeActions>
<VersionRange ...
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feature upgrading question
So I have read all Chris OBrien Feature upgrading blogs and I have a big question.
Lets suppose that I want to create a site from scratch and I want to activate a feature that has a feature activated ...
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Feature Upgrading - Adding an existing content type to a list definition
My question is: how do I add an existing content type (say the OOTB "Contact" content type) to an list instance definition (for "Shared Documents") in my site definition solution?
Background: I have ...
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Update Feature automatically
I have developed an update for a SharePoint 2010 solution. This update defines some upgrades for some of the included features (the upgrade are managed via the new FeatureUpgraded receiver event).
I ...
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Adding new webparts to an already deployed solution
I have a webpart project built in visual studio 2010 and it has been deployed successfully to my production environment. I recently had to make some changes to the webpart and also needed to add a ...
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SPFields in a list with content types enabled is not updating as expected
There is a big piece of the puzzle i am missing here.
I have a list with content types enabled. I am programatically trying to add an option to some choice fields in the featureupgrading method. The ...
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Why feature is linking old dwp version?
I had deployed feature with web part, assembly version 1.0.0.0. Then I have implement some changes in my solution and changed assembly number to 1.0.0.1. WebPart and feature version has been changed ...
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How Do I Rename a List Instance's Field's StaticName in FeatureUpdating?
I am creating a custom WSP in Visual Studio. This solution has several custom content types with custom fields as well as a list instance with content types enabled. Unfortunately, i need to change ...
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Powershell query features returns wrong result
I'm currently writing a powershell script which upgrades a set of solutions then a set of features from those solutions.
After the solution upgrades everything looks great until I Call QueryFeatures ...
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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 ...
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How to upgrade a specific aspx or ascx file in an existing solution
In the current project, the solution is already existing, the solution has like 5 features and each feature deploys different things.
The current development never used feature versions. So I ...
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Custom Add New Item Form Not Loading After Solution Upgrade
On my farm solution, I am creating custom Site Collection Definition, Content Type and new List based on that Content Type.
For the List, I created custom form and added it to the list Schema.xml as ...
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Rerun failed Feature Upgrade
Is it possible to rerun a feature upgrade? I have this situation where the feature upgrade fails to create a SitePage. The feature version is updated, is there some way to rerun the upgrade without ...
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Content Deployment job failing because of mismatched feature versions
I have content deployment (using database snapshots) configured between an authoring and production SharePoint 2010 environment.
I have a feature called PublishingContent_ContentTypes which I ...
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Deploying SharePoint 2010 WSP to MOSS 2007
Please help me on this. Is it possible to deploy a WSP solution developed in SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2007. I know this is very akward question, but right now I am asked this very same question ...
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How do I create Upgrade actions in the Feature.xml file using Visual Studio?
We have a solution in Visual Studio 2010 for a SharePoint 2010 application that is currently in Production (version 1.0.0.0).
I am making some changes to the solution to be deployed as version ...
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When will be the next SharePoint version coming?
I can't wait for a better version of SharePoint. I heard that the next version is SharePoint 2012 but now we have reach year 2012 but yet not receive any news on the beta version or even alpha version ...
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Updating list definition using features
I have a feature that deploys content types, a list definition and template that uses these content types and finally a list instance. This feature is already in production.
Now we have a change ...
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Activating a Feature that has been upgraded multiple times for the first time on a new site
I have a feature that has been upgraded a couple of times to add new fields to a content type. The feature started as version 1.0.0.0 and was deployed and activated at the site collection level.
As ...
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Upgraded instances of a workflow become 'stuck' and do not pickup OnTaskChanged Activities
I have a very simple workflow as seen here:
When a user goes to act on a task, they are presented with an InfoPath form. The form displays some information. The user either selected 'Approve' or ...
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Visual studio retracts and reinstalls my features, can I tell it to just update?
It appears Visual Studio 2010's out of the box functionality for Deploy retracts and installs my features. Can I tell it instead to perform an update-spsolution instead of removing the entire thing?
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Changing SharePoint 2010 Feature name and installation directory after deployment
I need to change the name and installation directory of some features that are already deployed in a client's environment.
I can change the feature name from the feature designer, and change the ...
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Feature Upgrade Retract Deploy Power Shell Commands
I have heard that one way that you can upgrade a feature in SharePoint with new files is to do a retract deploy. I believe this is what Visual Studio 2010 does when you do a Deploy. What are the Power ...
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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 ...
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Which Web Parts should get installed in SP2010 Update?
Per Dave Wise's answer(http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/13110/get-web-part-name-from-guid): Thanks, that worked great. However, even though my SQL Query returned 9000 results, about 18 of ...
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Updating a feature images not updated
The systems team updated a feature for me. The feature added a new favicon and a new image. The new files added in my feature where not deployed to the style library. Existing files were updated. I ...
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Choice field changed - How to propagate the change down to all lists that used it?
I have a feature (Web scoped) with a content type which contains a field (Type="Choice").
Values were A, B and C.
I've created a list based on this content type and added some elements in it.
I ...
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Does Update-SPSolution trigger a SPFeature.Upgrade()?
I'm looking into Feature versioning and upgrading in SharePoint 2010 and I don't know exactly if the Update-SPSolution cmdlet triggers a SPFeature.Upgrade().
Are <UpgradeActions> elements ...
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Find out feature version for list's content type
I have a feature which contains a custom content type. I've created a list based on this content type then proceeded into changing the feature version and performing an upgrade.
I have ...
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Versioning and upgrading features with SharePoint 2010 [closed]
I've been experimenting with feature version-ing and upgrading in Sharepoint 2010 and found a bunch of blogs, documentations etc. but it is still not very clear to me.
How does Sharepoint store the ...
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Updated SharePoint Solution not recongnized
I've modified a minor bug in a User Control of a custom SharePoint solution that was initially deployed on SharePoint 2007 but now it is deployed on SharePoint 2010.
I was hoping to just update the ...
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Users denied access after solution redeployment
My old solution has been running in my intranet farm for a long time. The solution contains a feature which deploys a webpart. The webpart shows the users of a group, together with information from ...
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Upgrading site definition
I have a question about the upgrade process for features in SharePoint.
In my feature, I'm deploying a custom site template along with a couple of list definitions, webparts, etc. Now when I upgrade ...
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How to update choice field options with a feature upgrade?
I created a feature with a field definition with choices. These choices are bound to language dependent resources using the $Resources:file:key system. Resource files are included.
As the feature is ...
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SiteCollection Feature Upgrade Access Denied for Farm Admin
My solution contains Site Collection scope features and has been deployed to Site Collections that the farm administrator has not been granted any explicit permissions.
If the farm administrator ...
