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FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation TemplateName attribute

Description

Feature stapling is an approach used to associate custom features with a site definition. This feature will be activated automatically when a new site is created from the associated site definition. The TemplateName attribute contains names of site definition configuration. reSP allows you to select from the drop-down list. Just use Ctrl+Space shortcut.

Note

Feature stapling concept itself is fairly easy to use, but an important aspect in feature stapling is the order in which a site is provisioned:

1. global onet.xml
2. Site-scoped features defined in onet.xml, in the order they are defined in the file.
3. Site-scoped stapled features, activated asynchronously, on multiple threads
4. Web-scoped features defined in onet.xml, in the order they are defined in the file.
5. Web-scoped stapled features, activated asynchronously, on multiple threads
6. List instances defined in onet.xml
7. Modules defined in onet.xml