Monday, January 31, 2011

GUIDs of the standard features in SharePoint 2010

We can always goto the hive \template\features and open the feature xml and find the unique ID of the feature that we are after but only intrigue part is most of the time the name appear in the feature folder is different to what we see in the SharePoint feature list either at the site or site collection level, one good example is Content Organizer, the folder name is DocumentRoutine, so I founnd the following link is very usefull in this aspect.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcsnoiwb/archive/2010/01/07/features-and-their-guid-s-in-sp2010.aspx

Use DataSets in document libraries.

Document sets is a really cool thing in SharePoint 2010, I have read many articals about this and also seen how to get it to use.

Here is the simple steps to get the document set content type into your document library.

- Goto the site collection features and activate the Document Sets feature for the site collection
   Once this is activated, the document sets content type is available for this site collection.
- Goto the library settings of the document library where you like to have the document sets.
- Select the advance settings
- Select Yes for the Allow management of content types under the Content types section and save it.
  Now the Content types section is available under the library settings.
- Click Add fromm existing site content types under the Content Types section.
- Select the Document Set fromm the list.
This is pretty simple but we forget so I decided to keep it here :)