{"id":139,"date":"2014-12-10T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waynenguyen.org\/dev\/2014\/12\/10\/a-feature-with-id-has-already-been\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T03:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T03:15:57","slug":"a-feature-with-id-has-already-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"A feature with ID has already been installed in this farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSharePoint 2013: A feature with ID has already been installed in this farm<\/h1>\n
\nSaturday, January 11, 2014<\/p>\n
\nSharepoint<\/a> SharePoint 2013<\/a> Visual Studio<\/a> Visual Studio 2013<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nWhen you try to deploy a Visual Web Part you may get the following error.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cError occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: A feature with ID 15\/3e472a61-bbc9-4242-87c7-a07e8e3fab99 has already been installed in this farm. Use the force attribute to explicitly re-install the feature.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nSee a sample screenshot of the error<\/div>\n
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\nThe reason for the error<\/h2>\n
\nThe Visual Studio deploys your project to the site specified by the Site URL property. Once you deployed a visual web part to a site, later from Visual Studio change the Site URL property to another site, next time when you try to deploy the project, you will see this error.<\/div>\n

\nResolution<\/h2>\n
\nThe solution is clearly specified in the error message itself.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cUse the force attribute to explicitly re-install the feature.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nIn order to specify the Force attribute, expand the Features node in your project and expand it.<\/div>\n
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\nDouble click on the feature to open the feature.<\/div>\n
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\nClick on the Manifest to modify the XML for the feature file and then click on the Edit options.<\/div>\n
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\nYou can edit the manifest in the Edit options editor. You can edit the file here, or use the link \u201cOpen in XML editor\u201d link to open the link in the XML editor. With XML editor, you will get the intellisense support.<\/div>\n
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\nAdd the AlwaysForceInstall=”TRUE” attribute to the Feature element. Once you modify the element, the modified element looks as follows.<\/div>\n
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\nOnce you save the manifest, now try to deploy the project, you will find the project will deploy with out any error.<\/div>\n
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SharePoint 2013: A feature with ID has already been installed in this farm Saturday, January 11, 2014 Sharepoint SharePoint 2013 Visual Studio Visual Studio 2013 When you try to deploy a Visual Web Part you may get the following error. \u201cError occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: A feature with ID 15\/3e472a61-bbc9-4242-87c7-a07e8e3fab99 has already been installed in this … Continue reading “A feature with ID has already been installed in this farm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}