Enable Item Scheduling in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to enable item scheduling in SharePoint 2010.

I have created a document library "Doc Library".

Go to Document Library (Doc Library) => Library Settings => General Settings =>Manage Item Scheduling => you will be getting the following error message.



Go to Document Library (Doc Library) => Library Settings => General Settings =>Versioning Settings =>Do the following



Go to Document Library (Doc Library) => Library Settings => General Settings =>Manage Item Scheduling => now you will be able to enable item scheduling.



Programmatically enable or disable item scheduling:

• Open Visual Studio 2010.
• Create Console application.
• Replace the code with the following.
  
  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using Microsoft.SharePoint;
  using System.Reflection;

  namespace ItemScheduling
  {
      class Program
      {
          static void Main(string[] args)
          {
              using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://serverName:1111/"))
              {
                  using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
                  {
                      SPList list=web.Lists["Shared Documents"];
                      list.EnableModeration = true;
                      list.EnableMinorVersions = true;
                      list.Update();

                      //To enable Scheduling in the list
                      Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.EnableScheduling(list);

                      //To disable Scheduling in the list
                      Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.DisableScheduling(list);
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  } 

• Hit F5.

Using PowerShell enable or disable item scheduling:

$site=Get-SPSite "http://serverName:1111/"
$web=$site.RootWeb
$list=$web.Lists

$list.EnableModeration=$true
$list.EnableMinorVersions=$true

# To enable Scheduling in the list
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::EnableScheduling($list)

# To disable Scheduling in the list
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::DisableScheduling($list)