Unable to Activate Publishing Infrastructure Feature in Site collection of SharePoint 2013

Question

Hi,

we have Migrated from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 on premises, when Activating  Publishing Infrastructure Feature in Site collection , get the following error

A duplicate field name "PublishingCacheEnabled" was found.

Where do I find this feature ? can some one let me know how to remove this field name ? Thanks...

Answer 1

Is this a true statement - is there a site field on the site collection with this name already? Can you start with a new site collection you just created and try again? Could this field have gotten onto your site collection without publishing by some kind of WSP deployment or Content Type hub? Some third party data-moving tools like DocAve or MetaLogix or ControlPoint move more information than they are supposed to like site fields, etc...

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Answer 2

Hi,

Goto Site Settings -> Site Columns. Check if a site column by the name "PublishingCacheEnabled" exists in the list. If yes, click on it and delete it. If not able to find it that way, use the following powershell to delete it.

$web = Get-SPWeb Site url 
$list = $web.Fields["Field Name"]
$field.AllowDeletion = $true
$field.Sealed = $false 
$field.ReadOnlyField = $false
$field.Hidden = $false
$field.Delete() 
$web.Update() 

Then, try to activate the Publishing Infrastructure feature.

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Answer 3

You can use SharePoint manager 2013 to check whether is a field "PublishingCacheEnabled" is available or not, then you can delete using SPM as well.

http://spm.codeplex.com/

Are you able to activate the feature using Force command?

$siteUrl = "http://sharepoint-journey.com/"
$siteCollection = Get-SPSite $siteUrl
Enable-SPFeature "PublishingSite" -Url $siteCollection.Url -force

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Answer 4

Hi,

This script does not run , after reading $field.AllowDeletion = $true, it fails saying Property 'Allow Deletion' cannot be found on this object : make sure it exists and settable

Answer 5

Can you try to delete this field using the UI by going to Site Settings -> Site columns? Is this the only publishing field that already exists or are there others?

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Answer 6

Hi Devendra, perfect...tried via the Force Command....it works ! able to activate the Publishing Feature

Activate Site Collection Level
Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingSite -URL http:// -Force
Activate Site Level
Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingWeb -URL http:// -Force