SharePoint Deployment Error – Activate Features / Invalid Field Name

Just a quick tip – if you ever get an error message like this while attempting to deploy your SharePoint solution:

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Invalid field name. {a41610db-0111-461c-8280-da6d0e28709d}

One thing to check is that you’ve actually specified the Name property for your Field References – I had

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<FieldRef ID="{A41610DB-0111-461C-8280-DA6D0E28709D}" DisplayName="Is Current Delegation" ShowInNewForm="FALSE" ShowInEditForm="FALSE"/>
[/sourcecode]
whereas I should have had:

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<FieldRef ID="{A41610DB-0111-461C-8280-DA6D0E28709D}" Name="IsCurrentDelegation" DisplayName="Is Current Delegation" ShowInNewForm="FALSE" ShowInEditForm="FALSE"/>
[/sourcecode]

6 thoughts on “SharePoint Deployment Error – Activate Features / Invalid Field Name”

BARBEN STREISSER June 3, 2011 at 10:43 am

Oh my god, thanks Henry!

I am always getting errors when I’m trying to deploy a sharepoint solution.

I’m hoping this one will be ‘The Final Solution.’

DANKE.

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Mohamed Hachem August 19, 2011 at 7:02 am

Hello
This error arises when you forget to add “Name” property to the FieldRef In the content type definition file. Make sure that Field Reference looks like the following:

Thanks

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