Feature IN Share Point

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Feature definition and its scopes

Features are packages of functionality that you can activate or deactivate in a SharePoint farm. They have four possible scopes:

·         Farm

·         Web application

·         Site

·         Web

A farm level feature, as the name suggests, is something that affects the whole farm, for example provisioning a custom timer job or deploying a Business Connectivity Services model.

A web application feature can be activated so that it only affects a single web application, and a typical example is a feature that modifies the web.config file.

A site scoped feature can be activated so that it only affects a site collection, an example being the deployment of a master page to the master pages catalogue.

A web scoped feature can be activate for a single site, for instance the default master page for that site.

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