Sharepoint 2013 : SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure (part 2) - Publishing Features

Publishing Features

The publishing infrastructure consists of a number of features. Each feature is a unit of discrete functionality and exists within SharePoint as a collection of files in the hive and (most often) assembly files in the Global Assembly Cache.

The SharePoint User Interface exposes two publishing-based features—one at the site collection scope and another at each publishing subsite scope in the site collection. Of course, if you created a site collection using the Publishing Portal template, then SharePoint has already activated these features for you.

1. Navigate to the publishing site (or any other site collection if activating publishing).
2. Click the gear icon.
3. Select the Site settings menu item.
4. Click the link for site collection features, under the Site Collection Administration heading.
5. Scroll down the list of the features and ensure that the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated (Figure 2).

   

   Figure 2. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature

6. Navigate to any subsite in the publishing site collection (you can also use the root site).
7. Navigate to the site settings (as previously).
8. Click the link to manage site features, under the Site Actions heading.
9. Ensure that the SharePoint Server Publishing feature is activated (Figure 3).

   

   Figure 3. SharePoint Server publishing site feature

The SharePoint User Interface shows two features for publishing, but these two features rely on a number of other feature dependencies. When you activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature and the SharePoint Server Publishing features, SharePoint requires activation of the dependent features. Ordinarily, you need not concern yourself about the details of the features, shown in Table 2, unless you are interested or one of these features failed to activate. You will not find any of the features listed in Table 2 via the SharePoint UI; instead, you must use PowerShell or STSADM to activate and deactivate these features. I provide the Global Unique Identifier (GUID) for each feature for this purpose.

Table 2. Publishing Feature Dependencies

GUID	Name	Description
A392DA98-270B-4e85-9769-04C0FDE267AA	Publishing Prerequisites	Calls an event handler to install prerequisites
AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E	Publishing Resources	Installs Web Parts, XSL, Silverlight
89E0306D-453B-4ec5-8D68-42067CDBF98E	Navigation	Installs custom actions and handlers for navigation
D3F51BE2-38A8-4e44-BA84-940D35BE1566	Publishing Layouts	Installs master pages, page layouts, and styles
EAF6A128-0482-4F71-9A2F-B1C650680E77	Search Server Web Parts	Installs search Web Parts
8B2C6BCB-C47F-4F17-8127-F8EAE47A44DD	Search Templates and Resources	Installs search templates and resources
A4C654E4-A8DA-4db3-897C-A386048F7157	HTML Design	Enables HTML Design
4BCCCD62-DCAF-46dc-A7D4-E38277EF33F4	Asset Library	Installs asset libraries
068BC832-4951-11DC-8314-0800200C9A66	Enhanced Theming	Installs theming controls
A942A218-FA43-4d11-9D85-C01E3E3A37CB	Enterprise Wiki Layouts	Installs content types, page layouts, and handlers for wikis
57CC6207-AEBF-426E-9ECE-45946EA82E4A	Mobile Publishing	Installs support for mobile browsing
915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3	Ratings	Installs rating controls
0C8A9A47-22A9-4798-82F1-00E62A96006E	Document Routing Resources	Installs content types, fields, and handler for document routing
5BCCB9A4-B903-4fd1-8620-B795FA33C9BA	Record Resources	Installs policy fields and custom actions
5B79B49A-2DA6-4161-95BD-7375C1995EF9	Media Web Parts	Installs media Web Parts
4E7276BC-E7AB-4951-9C4B-A74D44205C32	Translation	Installs handlers for language translation
67AE7D04-6731-42dd-ABE1-BA2A5EAA3B48	Search Taxonomy Refinement Web Parts	Installs search refinement Web Parts, using taxonomy
8C34F59F-8DFB-4a39-9A08-7497237E3DC4	Search Taxonomy Refinement HTML Web Parts	Installs search refinement Web Parts, using taxonomy for HTML content
94C94CA6-B32F-4da9-A9E3-1F3D343D7ECB	Publishing Web	Main publishing feature for the web scope—visible in the UI
F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA	Publishing Site	Main publishing feature for the site scope—visible in the UI
22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416	Publishing	Installs handlers and prerequisites for publishing
DFFAAE84-60EE-413A-9600-1CF431CF0560	Rollup pages	Installs rollup capability