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As you know we have 4 types of scope:
- Site (web site)
- Site Collection.
- Web Application.
- Farm.
Add SharePoint project items to a feature
- Double-click each item that you want to add.
- Choose an item that you want to add, and then choose the Add button (>).
- Choose the Add All button (>>). The SharePoint Project Items appear in the Items in the Feature list.
How is the scope of a SharePoint feature determined?
SharePoint Features can be scoped to the Farm, Web Application, Site Collection, and Web Site level depending on the purpose of the feature. The Feature scope is determined by the setting of the Scope attribute in the Feature element defined in the feature.xml file.
How is the scope of a web site determined?
The Feature scope is determined by the setting of the Scope attribute in the Feature element defined in the feature.xml file. A Web Site scoped Feature is one that can be activated only at the individual Web site level. List templates, list instances, custom actions, event receivers, etc are the some common elements for web site scoped features.
What does a site collection scoped feature mean?
A Site Collection scoped Feature is one that can be activated at the site collection level and contains items that apply to the site collection as a whole (for example, content types that are shared across the site collection), as well as items that can be activated per site (for example, list instances, etc).
Where are the permission scopes located in SharePoint?
SharePoint supports four different permission scopes within the content database and tenancy, as shown in Table 1. Permission scopes are named with URIs, including an “http:” prefix, but they are not URLs and they contain no placeholders. The permission scopes in this table and this article are literal strings. Table 1.