How To Activate Sharepoint Server Publishing In SharePoint Online

In this blog, you will learn how to activate SharePoint Server Publishing in SharePoint Online.

Today, I am writing about how to activate SharePoint Server Publishing in SharePoint Online. While activating this feature, we are getting an error. The error details are given below.

Site

The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature, which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature, which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa

Web

The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on the hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/15/22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416' (ID: '22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across the scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.

Web

The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on the hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/15/dffaae84-60ee-413a-9600-1cf431cf0560' (ID: 'dffaae84-60ee-413a-9600-1cf431cf0560'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across the scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.

To activate the same, we need to activate some of the site features in the SharePoint online site features option. I am going to show how to active the same features step by step.

Before starting the same, we need to know what SharePoint publishing infrastructure is. It provides an improved way to create and store the information displayed through the site's Web pages.

We need two features to activate on SharePoint site. The first feature is SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature, which we need to activate at the site collection features. Once SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated, SharePoint Server Publishing site feature can be activated on the sites within the site collection.

To do the same, the steps are given below to fix the issue,

• Login to SharePoint Online site and try to activate SharePoint Server Publishing and we will get the error given below.
  
  

• Now, to activate the same, we need to enable SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature from the site feature of the site collection or the site page.

• Select gear box from the left side of the screen and click on the site setting option.

• Here, select site collection features from the Site collection Administrator.
  
  

• We will be getting the site collection features wizard. Here, we need to find Publishing infrastructure feature.
  
  

• From the feature page SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure, provide the centralized libraries, content types, master pages and page layouts and enable page scheduling and other publishing functionality for a site collection.

• Once this feature activates, go back to the site features page from site setting under the site actions.

Note

SharePoint Server Publishing infrastructure will take some time to activate the same.

• Select the highlighted features SharePoint Server Publishing and activate the same. We will not be getting the error given above.
  
  

• Once this is activated, we can see many new apps will be created under the site contents. Go to the site contents page by clicking gear box and select site contents
  
  

• Also, there are many more Web parts, which will be added on the Web part wizard page.