Here's a dodgy analogy that I have used to explain the difference to people - (I like dodgy analogies ;-)
Take an example of a Metallica concert. Metallica (the band) is the site feature. Without them you have no concert as they play the music. However if you removed the stage, the roadies, the lighting, the alcohol and the soundsystem then you wouldn't have a Metallica concert, despite Metallica standing around looking lost. So the site collection feature can be viewed as "setting the stage" for the site feature. It puts all the necessary pre-requisites into place for the site scoped feature to work. Regards Paul www.cleverworkarounds.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sezai Komur Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Site features vs site collection features You are right about the Office SharePoint Server Publishing site feature, a ton of things are not available without it active, if you create a basic Team Site you can't manage navigation, switch the master page, create publishing pages etc, you'll notice a big difference in the number of options available in the site actions menu. The page editing toolbar only displays on publishing pages. Activating the Office SharePoint Server Publishing will create a pages library and other lists and libraries required to support publishing. It also depends on the site template used to create the subsites, if you create a new publishing site and view the site features you'll notice that the Office SharePoint Server Publishing site feature is already activated for the new site (because it is referenced in the Onet.xml for the publishing site). Whether or not you need the features enabled depends on what you need to use the site for really, I've seen this cause confusion before, by default if you create a basic team site in a publishing enabled site collection it won't have the publishing feature enabled in the team site. Then users wonder why they can't create publishing pages and need to use a content editor web part instead. Sezai. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jeremy Thake <[email protected]> wrote: The difference is in the scope. You will need the Site Collection Features and the Site Features both activated to get all the features. Most of the Site Templates will do this for you, but if you are doing it after the fact, you should activate them at both if you need them. This is a more granular way to allocate Features to particular sites underneath a site collection. For publishing...you don't "have to", but you won't get certain functionality in new sites if you don't activate it. I may be wrong, but off the top of my head the Page Editing Toolbar won't be there on a sub site if you don't active the Publishing Site Feature on it, even if the Publishing Site Collection feature is there. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Site features vs site collection features Hi all, After a quick audit of my sites I've come looking for some clarification as to what the difference is between site features and site collection features. For example, If I have enabled the following features at the site collection level, do I also need to activate them for each new sub site. It doesn't appear to be the case but it does make it confusing to determine which features are actually set for a specific site. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney _____ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: <http://www.codify.com/lists> http://www.codify.com/lists _____ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: <http://www.codify.com/lists> http://www.codify.com/lists _____ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss> http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: <http://www.codify.com/lists> http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
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