Sunday, April 3, 2011

Content organizer feature.

Content organizer is a really cool feature available in SharePoint 2010, This is available at site level and  activation is quiet straightforward, as we always do, navigate to the site features of the site where we plan to use the content organizer and activate the content organizer feature which is mostly the first feature in the list of site features.

As usual, as long as the feature get activated, we are happy and we do not attempt to look any further and enjoy using the content organizer. The only and also the interesting time that we tend to look at this feature in detail is, if it fails during activation or if you want to customize the application of content organizer, if you are in the latter category, the following will help you bit in understanding  a bit of internals of this  feature.

In fact the basic content organizer feature is coming with two features, one is at the site level and the other is at the site collection level. The site collection level feature is hidden and the main content organizer feature is depending on this. The folder names for these two features are DocumentRoutine and DocumentRoutineResources,

The DocumentRoutine is the site level feature and which get activated when the content organizer feature is activated, but this feature as I mentioned above depends on the DocumentRoutineResources hidden site collection level feature, so the DocumentRoutineResources hidden feature is activated by the site collection feature known as "SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection Features"


 


Normally, this feature is always activated by default as such the DocumentRoutineResources is also activated bu default.

As the name implies, DocumentRoutineResources features adds all the required content types and site columns for content organization while the DocumentRoutine feature creates the  two lists, the Drop off library which is available under the libraries and the other is the routing rules list which can be accessed by the link provided at the Site Administration under site settings and also one more link to access the content organizer settings page.