SharePoint 2010 Feature Scopes & Activation

Feature Activation Matrix The following is the Feature Scope & Activation locations. Scope Site Location "SharePoint Site" > "Site Actions" > "Site Settings" > "Manage Site Features" "SharePoint Site" > "Site Actions" > "Site Settings" > "Site Collection Features" "Central Administration" > "Manage Web Applications" > "Manage Features" "Central Administration" > "Manage Farm Features"

Site Collection

Web Application

Farm

Feature Scopes As you know we have 4 types of scope:

1. 2. 3. 4.

Site (web site) Site Collection Web Application Farm

To view it, open your project in Visual Studio & double-click on the Features item from Solution Explorer.

After deploying the solution, you can Activate/Deactivate a feature from the corresponding page.

For activating the Site Scoped feature, open the SharePoint site & go to "Site Actions" > "Site Settings" > "Manage Site Features" page.

You can activate or deactivate a corresponding feature. For activating Site Collection scoped feature, open the SharePoint site collection top-level site & go to "Site Actions" > "Site Settings" > "Site Collection Features" page.

For activating the Farm Scoped feature, open "Central Administraiton" > "Manage Farm Features" page.

For activating the Web Application Scoped feature, open "Central Administraiton" > "Manage Web Applications" page and then select "Web application", "Manage Features" from the Toolbar.

Note: You can also activate features using PowerShell. For more information on Feature Scope & Items, see the References section.

Note:

2 is dependent on Feature 1,whenever u activate Feature 2,it is telling that first activate 1)Feature feature 1.The message will be like