Thursday, June 17, 2010

Feature not enabled for Managed Metadata column

If you are using the new Term Store and trying the create a column of type "Managed Metadata" in a site created using the "Blank Site" template you may get the following message in the Term Set Settings:

"The required feature is not enabled for this column type"

This is because the Blank Site template does not active some features by default including the hidden "TaxonomyFieldAdded" feature required to add a managed metadata column.

You can use the following command to activate:

Enable-SPFeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://yoursiteurl




Setup Groups

What happened to the "Setup Groups" option in SharePoint 2010 to create the 3 defaults groups for a site that is not inheriting permissions?

You can get to this page at the following URL:

_layouts/permsetup.aspx

This will create the 3 default groups Visitors, Members, Owners for the site with the default permission levels of read, contribute and full control respectively.