Incorrect Feature Status

Question

I have a feature deployed in my Moss 07 site.  Part of the feature checks if the user is a site collection admin in the FeatureDeactivating event.  If the user is not a site collection admin, I reactivate the feature using the following:

CurrentWeb.Features.Add(New Guid("E44B5574-F6BD-4dee-B5DB-DC2D0D873893"), True)

The problem is when I click Deactivate, the status shows the feature has been deactivated, but it has been reactivated since I'm not a site collection admin.  So the code is working correctly but the status is displaying incorrect.  Is there any way around this? 

Thanks!

Answer 1

I know it sounds like a hack, but a better solution might be to throw an exception in the deactivation method if the user is not an administrator. You can specify the error message to give to the user ("You are not authorized to deactivate this feature.") and the feature won't be deactivated, (so there's no need to programmatically reactivate it.)

http://www.hezser.de/blog/archive/2008/12/28/cancel-the-activation-of-a-spfeature.aspx

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