Managing Site and Site Collection Features

Managing Site and Site Collection Features

Along with all of the site capabilities we have been discussing, you also have the ability to enable and disable specific site features within the SharePoint sites, and you have the ability to enable and disable specific site collection features in the overall site collection. Many site features are introduced with SharePoint Server that can be managed in this way, SharePoint Foundation provides the following site and site collection features.

Managing Site Features

Site features included by default within SharePoint Foundation are the following:

Group Work Lists: Identifies if the group work calendar list should be made

available in the site. This feature is only activated by default in group work sites.

Team Collaboration Lists: This feature is active by default in all standard site

templates. It determines if standard collaboration document libraries and lists

should be made available within the site.

Wiki Page Home Page: When active this feature creates a wiki page as the site

home page. This feature is active by default in sites created from the team site

template.

Activate or deactivate site features as follows:

1. Navigate to the site where the feature needs to be managed.

2. On the site’s home page, click the Site Settings link on the Site Actions menu.

3. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Actions section, click the Manage Site

Features link.

4. On the Site Features page, click the Activate/Deactivate button to activate or

deactivate a feature.

The feature status is changed.

Managing Site Collection Features

Site collection features included by default within SharePoint Foundation are the following:

Custom Site Collection Help: This feature creates a Help library where custom

help files for the site collection can be managed.

Open Documents in Client Applications by Default: This feature controls if

documents should be opened by default in client applications or web

applications.

Three-State Workflow: This feature allows for the creation of three state

workflows within the site collection.

Activate or deactivate site collection features as follows:

1. Navigate to the top-level site for the site collection where the feature needs

to be managed.

2. On the site’s home page, click the Site Settings link on the Site Actions menu.

3. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click

the Site Collection Features link.

4. On the Site Collection Features page, click the Activate/Deactivate button to

activate or deactivate a feature.

The feature status is changed.