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Digging into the SharePoint Portal Layouts Features


Wednesday, July 21 2010 - SharePoint 2010

A great feature with lots of web parts is Portal Layouts Feature (5F3B0127-2F1D-4cfd-8DD2-85AD1FB00BFC) in the /14/TEMPLATES/FEATURES/PortalLayouts folder.

You might be asking how you activate this feature since it is not in the list of features, the reason you can’t see it is that it is hidden.  You must activate SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features or SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features to have it activated.  This might seem obvious if you are developing with the enterprise version or have all features on, but some people might only have SharePoint Foundation.

There are two major files that make up this feature.

  1. LayoutFiles.xml – Installs the Page Layout used in the Standard and Enterprise features.
  2. webPartDWPFiles.xml – Adds a whole bunch of web parts for you to use!

 

Here are some of the layouts and web parts that come with this feature.

  • People Search Results Layout
  • People Search Results Layout
  • Report Center Layout
  • AdvancedSearchBox Web Part
  • Category Web Part
  • RSSViewer Web Part
  • SocialComment Web Part
  • TagCloud Web Part
  • OWA Web Parts
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Comments

#1 PaulE on 5.13.2011 at 1:07 PM

Thanks, Brendon! I was being asked why these web parts didn't show up on site collections we had upgraded from SP2007. No answer as to why it happens in the first place, but you give a comfortable way to fix the issue.