Comments on SharePoint Voodoo Magic: IgnoreIfAlreadyExists

The complete solution can be seen here: http://v...

2009-07-05T14:00:54.617-04:00

The complete solution can be seen here:

http://vivek-soni.blogspot.com/2009/07/overwriting-files-using-module-element.html

Well - I did some more digging and this is where I...

2009-04-25T22:37:38.008-04:00

Well - I did some more digging and this is where I will leave it. I saw here (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/9cd4577d-22f3-4d34-8cf0-a69ce154fa78/) that I could add a Version property however after activation, the publishing page version number did not change. Bummer. As well, changes to the Title property for instance did not take. HOWEVER the changes to the aspx were pushed out! That is all I care about because if the template changes, I want to be able to push that out using the same feature.

I will get something up on my blog soon about this...

I just ran into issue as well. However you will g...

2009-04-25T22:05:01.789-04:00

I just ran into issue as well. However you will get an error saying "This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages" if there are existing pages that already reference the publishing page when you deactivate the Feature. This is actually important because you may be pushing out a new version of the file and you want to do it through the Feature. I have not been able to figure out a good solution yet. So if I have to update the aspx, looks like the only option would be to try to update the existing file with a new version. Maybe I can try to do this on a FeatureActivation event so that if the file already exists, just try to push it in anyways...