The Feature is not a Farm Level Feature and is not found in a Site level defined by the Url

Question

In my web application level feature, its activated, but unable to see teh timer job in the timerjob definitions, in monitoring so i went with activating feature with powershell, receiving this error:

Getting error while activating timer job feature:

PS C:\Windows\system32> E:\PoCSolutions\enable-feature-TestingTimerJob-Feature.ps1 enable-spfeature : The Feature is not a Farm Level Feature and is not found in a Site level defined by the Url http://srvr1:28516/.

• enable-spfeature -Identity "TestingTimerJobFeature" -Url "http://srvr01: ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  • CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...etEnableFeature:SPCmdletEnableFeature) [Enable-SPFeature], SPCmdletException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletEnableFeature

  private bool CreateJob(SPWebApplication site)
      {
          bool jobCreated = false;
         try
        {
            TestingSPTimerJob.TestingSPTimer timerjobrilt1 = new 
            TestingSPTimerJob.TestingSPTimer(JobName, site);  
            SPDailySchedule jobDailySchedule = new SPDailySchedule();
            jobDailySchedule.BeginHour = 24;
            jobDailySchedule.BeginMinute = 02;
            jobDailySchedule.BeginSecond = 1;

            timerjobrilt1.Schedule = jobDailySchedule;
            timerjobrilt1.Update();
         }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return jobCreated;
         }
         return jobCreated;
      }

######################################################################### public class TestingSPTimer :SPJobDefinition {

      public TestingSPTimer()
        : base()
        {        }

    public TestingSPTimer(string jobName, SPService service)
        : base(jobName, service, null, SPJobLockType.Job)
       {
        this.Title = "Testing SPTimerJob";
       }

      public TestingSPTimer(string jobName, SPWebApplication webapp)
          : base(jobName, webapp, null, SPJobLockType.Job)
       {
        this.Title = "Testing SPTimerJob";
       }

      public override void Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)
      {
        SPWebApplication webApp = this.Parent as SPWebApplication;

        string strwebappname = webApp.Name.ToString();


        foreach (SPSite singleSite in webApp.Sites)
        {
            if (singleSite.ContentDatabase.Id.Equals(targetInstanceId))
            {
                SPList objListProjRequest = 
        singleSite.RootWeb.Lists.TryGetList("TestingTimerJob");

                SPWeb objspweb = singleSite.RootWeb;

               SPListItem singleitemm=   objListProjRequest.Items.Add();

               singleitemm["Title"] = "Testingtimer_" + 
           DateTime.Now.ToString();

               singleitemm.Update();

Answer 1

Make sure the following:

• Provide the Feature Guid rather than its name from feature.xml file
• You have provided the correct URL.

• Don't surround the feature with double quotation " as shown below

  Enable-SPFeature –Identity f9ce720e-6473-47c2-142k-9d94582369e –url $Url