{"id":1053,"date":"2011-03-25T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:45:02","slug":"adding-a-content-type-to-a-hub-using-a-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2011\/03\/25\/adding-a-content-type-to-a-hub-using-a-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Content Type to a Hub Using a Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more I work with content types , the more I like to do everything programmatically rather than declaratively using features. Here is a funny thing that may make you scratch your head for a while:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a feature that adds a content type to a content type hub.<\/li>\n
  2. Publish the content type in the hub.<\/li>\n
  3. Let the publishing\/subscribe timer jobs run (every hour or so) or manually execute them through Central Admin site.<\/li>\n
  4. In a subscribe site collection, check the content type publishing error log.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It errors out saying that you need to install the feature on the subscriber site collection. Although, you don’t need to activate the feature on the target subscriber , I still think the dependency on feature installation on the subscriber site collection is somehow odd!<\/p>\n

    Whether this is by design or just a bug , I don’t know, but here is the resolution :<\/p>\n

    Resolution:<\/strong> Add the content type to the hub either through the browser, PowerShell or use a console application for what that matters!Using features to add content types is really not worth the headache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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