Features and Solutions are two new aspects of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) that make it dramatically easier to customize sites and site templates.

How to work with site Features, Feature definitions, and Solutions using the SharePoint object model

Features provide the ability for sites to reuse functionality that exists in other sites without requiring the tedious task of copying and pasting complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) code from one template to another.

Using Features, you can do everything from adding a link to the Site Settings page to creating a complete, fully functioning Project Management suite that can be added to any SharePoint site.

Solutions allow you to package Features in a cabinet (.cab) file and define important metadata about those Features.

SharePoint’s solution management features provide hands-off deployment of reusable pieces of SharePoint functionality.

SharePoint includes a robust object model for working with features that allows developers to enumerate (count) installed and activated features, to turn features on and off, and to control the installation and removal of features.

The object model for features contains the following key classes.

SPFeatureCollection/SPFeature – Refers to a Feature state at a given site hierarchy level.

SPFeaturePropertyCollection/SPFeatureProperty – Represents a single property on a Feature or a collection of those properties.

SPFeatureScope – Represents an enumeration of the possible scopes in which feature can be activated. Possible values are Site, Web, Farm, and WebApplication

SPFeatureDefinition - Represents the basic definition of a Feature, including its name, scope, ID, and version.

SPFeatureDependency—Represents a Feature upon which another Feature depends.

SPElementDefinition—Represents a single element that will be provisioned when the Feature is activated.

To enumerate the list of Feature definitions that are currently installed within a farm (which includes single-server farms and standalone servers, which are another form of single-server farms), you need to use an instance of the SPFarm class and access the FeatureDefinitions property. To enumerate the list of active Features on a given site, you need to enumerate the Features property on the appropriate SPWeb or SPSite class instance. You might be tempted to iterate through the collection contained in the

Features property and look for something like an Active property. However, the only SPFeature instances that appear in the Features property are those features that are active in the current scope.

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How to change permission for a document in Microsoft Sharepoint Server

Step1: If you have any document library in your SharePoint site open the document library by clicking on that document library link.

Step2: If you don’t find document library, create by clicking on site settings -> create.

Step3: Make sure at least one document library item available in your library.

Step4: If you have edit permissions, you will get one dropdown arrow, when you click on that arrow you will get a menu bar with the option ‘Manage Permission’, click on ‘Manage Permission’

Step5: select the user to change permission, update his permissions for the document item you selected. that’s it… you learned how to change permission for a document in Microsoft SharePoint Server.

Please check the below video on changing permission for a document in Microsoft SharePoint Server. Let me know if anything unclear to you.

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