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Difference between Feature ID and Solution ID
Solution id is identity of Solution package (.wsp file). If you are deploying wsp file, it will check solution id. If exists, it will update solution.
Solution contains all the features, assembly, ...
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How to remove orphaned features
To my surprise this worked for me:
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -id <id-of-feature-missing> -force
Found in this blog post Sharing Minds - by Anthony Butcher
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How to move a feature from "Manage Site Features" to "Site Collection Features"
Make the feature scope in Visual Studios be "Site" instead of "Web".
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231541.aspx
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CSOM Powershell to check if feature is activated
There can be better and different ways to check if Feature is activated or not. But once I used below code.
Connect to your site collection using CSOM code, and load feature as below.
$FeatureID = "...
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Difference between Feature ID and Solution ID
Solution Id-
A WSP contains unique / single Solution ID.
One solution / WSP can contains many feature ID's, depending on the requirement.
Feature ID-
- Feature Id can be multiple in a single ...
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How to remove orphaned features
You can try this and second Reference, this one I have refered fist time.
For this you need the add the Feature Id and then -Force is important.
Without force it works sometimes but definitely works ...
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How to remove orphaned features
I used following command to remove feature from Site Collection Administration : Features interface
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -id <GUID> -force
GUID of feature (which you want to remove) can ...
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Feature has already been installed. Use the force attribute to explicitly re-install the feature
I had this same issue and found that it was because of Orphaned Feature.
There are chances that whenever you remove wsp from farm and redeploy it, then Feature associated with that wsp might not got ...
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SP2019 - Site Collection feature "SharePoint Lists and Libraries experience" missing
You are not missing anything. SharePoint 2019 doesn't have this feature. It is only available in SharePoint online.
If you want to disable the modern experience in SharePoint 2019, you could use the ...
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Limiting feature to 1 web application
This is happening because the feature files get deployed into the File System and it gets picked up by all web applications.
There is no straight forward solution to this problem. The one workaround ...
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Recommended way/Best Practice to create a sub-site with RunWithElevatedPrivileges inside my Event Receiver
For creating sub sites in event receiver you would need to create new instance of SPweb via url because of RunWithElevatedPrivileges. Also your worry on below
Calls to the Update method on these ...
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Difference between Feature ID and Solution ID
Solution ID: ID of the Package (.wsp file), That are you going todeploy
Open the solution package file in VS
Click on the package designer
Open the Property window and scroll down the the Solution ID ...
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Feature is not displaying
If you have recently added the feature to a solution file already deployed, it will not immediately show up.
You will need to check for existing features using power-shell then install it.
ex.
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The list "Lists/Issue Manage" doesn't exist. Please fix the ListUrl attribute
There seems to be some discrepancy. The error you are getting shows the Url as Lists/Risk Issue whereas the Url present in elements.xml file is Lists/Issue Manage.
ListUrl attribute works for Web ...
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Error "Feature schema contain wrong field name" when trying to create a new site based on a site template
Workflows, designed in the SharePoint designer use hard coded GUIDs so they do not play nice when exporting/importing including saving site as a template.
What goes wrong I guess, is that the workflow ...
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Unable to deactivate the "Video and Rich Media" site collection feature "Cannot deactivate the feature because the Video Set content type is in use. "
Does that feature create any new lists or libraries?
A content type is "in use" if it has been added to a list or library. So if the feature adds a new list or library that includes the "Video Set" ...
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Cannot Extract Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Feature.DisplayName Property
You need to explicitly load the display name property of the feature. In CSOM unlike SSOM, it (mostly) only gives you only the properties that you ask for.
Try either of the below two approaches, ...
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How to load FeatureDefinitionScope value via csom?
With your code, you will only retrieve all features with scope "Web". There is actually a difference between features scoped to a site ("Web" class) or to a site collection ("Site" class).
The ...
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How to load FeatureDefinitionScope value via csom?
In CSOM Feature Object, there is no "FeatureDefinitionScope", please check the documentation:
Feature properties
If you are using SharePoint On-Premise Environment, you can use the Server Object ...
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Use custom Feature Icon for SPFx
Yes I agree that it’s not possible or recommended . SPFx uses the Feature Framework (elements.xml) to handle features and it does not have a native api to set the image.
(There were workarounds ...
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Follow and Share Button is missing from SharePoint online
Check the steps below.
Using an admin user to check if the two buttons exists.
Using IE/Chrome F12 check if those buttons hide using CSS.
Check if the button have removed at Master page level.
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Sharepoint 2013 designer's ribbon doesn't have the "Stage" feature
Are you using a SharePoint 2010 workflow? You can check the workflow type in Workflow Settings.
If you want to use the feature "transition to stage", you can use a SharePoint 2013 workflow. The only ...
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How to hide existing Custom Actions (via Feature) in Sharepoint 2010
Go for custom Feature upgrade, No doubt in that. Reasons:
Why to have a feature that kills another feature. Extra resource, extra load on SP servers. Not a good solution.
Feature upgrade is easy, ...
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Returning an error message inside my event receiver using "SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;" will redirect to "Server Error in '/' Application."
I highly suspect you actually have another (real) error in the code in case the ER runs in the context of the issue tracking list (e.g. a field missing, an internal name misspelled, ...)
First things ...
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Forcefully delete Home Page of a site programatically
The error is pretty much self explanatory. You need to set a different page as welcome page first and then delete your current welcome page.
Try and modify below code as per you requirement:
using (...
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Create and deploy ListInstance without ListDefinition in a feature
Forget about features and list definitions for this! Instead, provision your site columns, site content types and lists with client-side code (CSOM/REST API). Use the Office 365 Dev PnP Provisioning ...
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modify my sub-site Quick Launch link title from "Home" to be equal to the Sub-site title, inside my event receiver
Add below code to update quick launch:
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = newSite.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
foreach (SPNavigationNode node in nodes)
{
if (node.Title == "Home")
{
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Error in Feature event receivers : Column does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user
Make sure that you get the correct list (item list) and it's not the event list at this line
SPList leaveItemList = webWithList.GetList(url);
I noted that the previous fields EmployeeOnLeave and ...
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What features do I have to activate to get Content search web part (CSWP)
If your Microsoft subscription is not E3, E5, or SharePoint Online 2, you do not have access Content Search Web Part. But you can ask Microsoft for it here: https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/...
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