set of functionality that can be turned on at a particular scope level
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Column 'Document Id' not added to Library even after activating 'Document ID Service'
To enable document id feature in SP10, I followed the steps mentioned in the following posts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2011/10/12/document-id-in-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx ...
3
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2answers
454 views
Documents opening in Office Web Applications (when they're not installed)
I have a farm where for every new site collection the "Open Documents in Client Applications by Default" feature is disabled. So when ever a user opens an excel or word file it will try and open it in ...
1
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1answer
12 views
Apply element manifest without re-activating feature
I have a feature module which consists of an XML file which adds ConsoleNodes to the Site Actions menu. To test it, it seems I must compile the package, deploy it, activate it, etc. Since this is ...
0
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2answers
42 views
Managed metadata field grey when deploying with powershell
I have a powershell script that does the following:
Create web application x
Add and install some wsps
Create site collection using a site definition deployed with one of the wsps.
3b. The ...
1
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2answers
19 views
External “Asset Library”
Any idea if SharePoint has an extensibility point to add an external DAM store as a normal Asset source for images or other media files?
0
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1answer
851 views
SharePoint 2010 solution not deploying correctly (features not available)
I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 solution on a server using Visual Studio. Unfortunately the server decided to die on me. Fortunately I have the solution backed up using source control and had ...
2
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1answer
462 views
Missing OOTB Enterprise Workflow Templates
I am using a SharePoint 2010 Enterpise server, with the Norwegian language pack installed. The issue that I am having is that some of the standard OOTB workflows (within the Workflow feature) are ...
0
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2answers
587 views
What's the connection between “Recently modified in Quick Launch” and the “SharePoint Server Publishing”-Feature?
First I had a plain Team Site without the Feauture "SharePoint Server Publishing" activated. I created several Site Pages, all rendered automatically without the annoying "Recently Modified".
When I ...
0
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1answer
545 views
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 ...
0
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1answer
95 views
Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Missing Server Side Dependencies
I installed some of infowise templates to our sharepoint server and it installed some features. Now, we try to upgrade 2013 version of sharepoint server. But we take some error about these features. ...
0
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0answers
17 views
Add element to more than one feature
This is the case: We have an existing site collection with Feature A with 6 elements: E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6 (5 list instances and 1 web event receiver).
I want to create a feature which only exists ...
0
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0answers
55 views
List of Site Features using Client Object model - SharePoint 2010
I am working on a Windows Forms application to list the features available for a SharePoint site. But I find no way, to retrieve the list of Site Features using Client Object Model.
...
0
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2answers
82 views
Removing all Enterprise SharePoint Features from a web application
I am having a hard time determining which features to include in the removal process. Additionally, I am struggling to determine the order in which they should be removed. Could you please help me ...
0
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0answers
40 views
Visual Studio 2012 Feature Deploying with two front-ends
We have a situation where we have too many developers needing to work on the same SharePoint 2013 farm. We thought the best way around this was to build out another front-end and install VS 2012 on ...
1
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2answers
54 views
Value retain when redeploy of SharePoint Timer Job
I have a very simple question on SharePoint 2010 Timer Job, I build by reference from here.
Basically upon execute of the Timer Job, I add an entry to SharePoint Custom List as following:
public ...
2
votes
1answer
74 views
Sharepoint 2010: Creating Feature.xml and Elements.xml using notepad
Thanks for your help in advance.
I am learning Sharepoint 2010 and trying to dive deep. What I am doing right now is to create a content type and fields using declarative programming in notepad and ...
0
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1answer
75 views
SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature workaround?
I am running Sharepoint 2010 Foundation.. I have been trying to locate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” features... This feature does not seem to be available on the Foundation version... ...
0
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0answers
47 views
The 'Scope' attribute is invalid - The value 'Site' is invalid according to its datatype
After setting the value Site to the attribute Scope of a Feature on a Sharepoint 2013 application I started receiving the following error, deploying to Sharepoint Online:
Error occurred in deployment ...
2
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2answers
671 views
How to delete features?
I have been uploading managed code xsn through central admin in development. It's the same infopath project. But I think SharePoint has a bug and it does not delete the old features when uploading a ...
1
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2answers
83 views
How can the deployment of a feature (or element) be made dependent on the SharePoint version (2010/2013)?
I have a solution (deployed in the Sandbox) that declaratively creates CustomActions (menu items).
It works fine in SharePoint 2010 and 2013, but we don't like the look in 2013 so I'd like to exclude ...
2
votes
2answers
92 views
Powershell script to retrive all the customization done on sharepoint site
How to write a powershell script which will display the customization done on a sharepoint site - customizations like custom features, custom workflows, custom site def, infopath form etc...
1
vote
1answer
218 views
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The parent content type specified by content type identifier 0x0101 does not exist
I have created 80 content types. some of them are inherited from some other content types. I have placed all the content types in feature in such an order that parent content types are at top. But ...
1
vote
1answer
61 views
How to DeActivate feature of my site?
How to DeActivate feature of my SharePoint site remotely ?
I have created .wsp package file and uploaded SandBox solution to my SharePoint site. But in my elements.xml file it has 1 mistake of ...
0
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1answer
467 views
Feature with id already exists - force option
I'm getting that old familiar error when trying to deploy my SharePoint solution via Visual Studio:
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': A feature with ID {Guid} has already been ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
Visual Studio 2010 Site Column template?
I noticed there are a lot of new project and item templates in Visual Studio 2010, but I'm unable to find one for Site Columns. Is there none? What's the suggested way of making a site column in ...
1
vote
3answers
40 views
Feature Folder Path Name Doubled
Why when I create a new feature in VS2010 and deploy it, I see the Features folder has my solution but the name is "Doubled Up". Is this expected behavior? See my sample below:
C:\Program ...
1
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2answers
342 views
Sharepoint 2010 and 'My Sites Blog'
I'm working with a customer to try to help them create a new site with a template they have created. I am able to reproduce the error locally, which is:
The site template requires that the Feature
...
0
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0answers
69 views
custom reusable feature to create and deploy login page for FBA site using page layout
i want to create a feature which will deploy globally in a web farm and will create a custom login page layout template. any SharePoint applications running in that farm should be able to create a ...
0
votes
1answer
134 views
Override default.aspx in Sharepoint Foundation by Feature
I want to develop a feature(-event receiver) to override default.aspx. I want to use a webpart-page instead and add some webparts. I don't know how to override it. I know how to build a new ...
2
votes
1answer
108 views
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, ...
4
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1answer
83 views
Add .preview file using feature
I have this feature with a nice little master page inserted through a feature, and it works fine. Now I'm looking into theming, created a composable look. To choose this look in the design manager ...
0
votes
2answers
187 views
Change SharePoint Sub-Site's Default Page
I am installing a sub-site in Sharepoint 2010 using PowerShell. For all the sub-sites, we have configured sharepoint to launch a particular sub-site's default.aspx page as landing page after log-in. ...
1
vote
1answer
143 views
To deploy page layout with feature at the same time of adding content type, the content type Id issue
First let me describe my situation:
Now I'm using object model to add two content types (inheriting Pages content type) using the FeatureActivating methode in the Feature Receiver. in the same ...
0
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2answers
122 views
Feature deactivation and webpart not being removed
I have a question regarding a feature and the webparts. Basically recently i noticed that when i deploy a webpart with my solution and it is bound to a feature on site collection scope, when it is ...
1
vote
2answers
300 views
Content deployment error; feature not installed
The business had a wish to copy content from production to acceptation (publishing environment). So I created a content deployment job to do so, and ran it.
It failed with the following error:
...
0
votes
1answer
39 views
Remove a list from all site collections when a feature is uninstalled
I have a site scoped Feature which specifies a list as such:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
...
1
vote
2answers
182 views
Add user control or web part to every page in a site
I want to have a feature which causes the following to happen everytime any page in a site loads.
I need to have a web part or user control which adds information about the current user to the page. ...
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2answers
113 views
Overwrite a dll in the GAC to avoid installing the whole feature
Is it possible to overwrite 1 dll in the GAC of a live server of my customer? Otherwise I need to install the whole feature. In this feature are very much webparts and other stuff.
3
votes
4answers
6k views
Explain it to me: SharePoint deployment scope, solution and features
There are different levels of scope for deployment, but I have not been able to find a definitive explaination of when each applies and what the restrictions are that require loosening (or tightening) ...
0
votes
3answers
179 views
Uninstall Site Collection Features not found error. What's the physical path for them?
I want to uninstall some features of the site collection on my server.
These features are on my site collection and of site or web scope. On the Sharepoint "Site Settings" -> "Manage site features" ...
1
vote
1answer
171 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
206 views
How to use one page layout for few content types
I have elements.xml with module:
<Elements>
<Module Name="IntranetNewsPageLayout" Url="_catalogs/masterpage">
<File Path="IntranetNewsPageLayout\IntranetNewsPageLayout.aspx" ...
2
votes
1answer
79 views
How to activate content type on specific web?
I have site collection ex: http://microsoft.com/ and i got few child webs:
http://microsoft.com/news/
http://microsoft.com/somethingelse/
<Elements ...
1
vote
3answers
151 views
applicationSettings ignored in web.config
I've written a feature assembly that includes an SPFeatureReceiver. I can successfully deploy the feature's WSP, the assembly goes to the GAC, and the feature (mostly) does what it's supposed to. ...
1
vote
0answers
43 views
Missing Features and Existing Lists
I have a site that was hosted on a Microsoft Project Server instance. One of the sub-sites was based on the Project Workspace Template in order to get access to the "special" lists like Risks and ...
5
votes
1answer
510 views
Problem Extending SPDiagnosticsServiceBase
I am trying to create a feature that Extends the SPDiagnosticServicesBase class following the code described in MSDN That article has example code for extending the SPDiagnosticServicesBase class ...
0
votes
1answer
45 views
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.
...
0
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1answer
80 views
Update SPList.TemplateFeatureId
I need to update the TemplateFeatureId for a couple of lists in our SharePoint 2010 installation. The current TemplateFeatureId points to a feature that is no longer installed in the farm. Both ...
2
votes
2answers
397 views
Caml defined Custom Action, UrlAction and the multi language interface
When defining a custom action via the CAML schema definition, the UrlAction parameter specifies the "site or site collection relative URL of the page, for example, ~site/_layouts/sampleurl.aspx or ...
2
votes
1answer
76 views
Feature with List and registration form
I am new to SharePoint and want to discuss an issue
I want to create a feature that will create custom application page (registration form) and a custom list to store registration form's data. I can ...
