![]() SharePoint 2010 comes with some wonderful managed metadata features. A quick Google search returns oodles of information about planning your managed metadata, adding managed metadata columns to lists and libraries, and using metadata navigation. What most of them fail to point out is that there are features that need to be enabled in order to use the managed metadata columns and the metadata navigation. Those features aren’t exposed in the UI in an out of the box configuration. After much spelunking and blog reading and traipsing through the SharePoint root directory, I finally figured out how to enable these two features. ![]() Using the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (PowerShell), you simple run the following commands: Enable-SPFeature -id '73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C' -Url Enable-SPFeature -id '7201D6A4-A5D3-49A1-8C19-19C4BAC6E668' -Url The first one is the feature that allows the use of managed metadata columns for libraries and lists. The second one is the one that adds the metadata navigation options (and filter keys). Technically, the second feature isn’t listed as hidden and so it should show up in the UI. But, in my development install, it did not. As a side note, when you read about features that aren’t showing in your UI, and you want to track them down, head on over to your SharePoint feature directory, which is typically: C: Program Files Common Files Microsoft Shared Web Server Extensions 14 TEMPLATE FEATURES Find the subfolder for the feature you are interested in, and find the Feature.xml file within. PowerShell to activate a SharePoint 2010 feature. Needed to activate the feature at the site collection. 2010 feature on every site collection in. I am trying to move a site from a 2007 SharePoint in Domain A to a 2010 SharePoint in Domain B using STSADM. We have noticed a very strange behaviour when activating the PublishingSite site collection feature via the gui and via powershell and I'm wondering if you have any ideas or thoughts on it. Aug 29, 2013. For Site and Web scoped feature, only way is to use the powershell to activate the feature after it is deployed. (But for Farm and Web Application scoped features, Go to the manifest of your feature and set 'ActivateOnDefault' to true, this will cause the feature to get activated automatically whenever the. Open it with a text reader, copy the ID for the feature, and plug it into the commands above. Run it and you’ll be able to install any of the hidden features. Hopefully this will save someone else a major search hassle. Deanna, thanks so much for posting this, it worked successfully for me. I can confirm that I did not see the feature for use of metadata columns in libraries and lists in the site features or site collection features, although like you I did see the one for metadata navigation and filtering. Do you know of any way or command to enable these features automatically for all lists and libraries on a particular site collection? The PS command activates the feature and allows you to go into list and library settings to turn on the functionality for particular lists – I am looking for a rapid way to get an Enterprise Keywords column on all lists & libs in a site collection without having to turn it on manually for each one. You need to activate Publishing Infrastructure in the Site Collection where you want to use Publishing. Go to the Top level site of the Site Collection and choose Site Actions > Site Settings. On the Site Settings page in the Site Collection Administration column choose Site Collection Features. Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature.
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