Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid field name.

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:50:02 +0000

I posted about an issue I had been facing with deploying document sets via XML, where things like the custom welcome page and the shared fields (defined in XmlDocuments) wasn’t showing up.

Here’s a further issue I encountered. I defined my Document Set content type in the usual way. A bunch of Site Fields, then the Content Type definition, and then within the FieldRefs section some FieldRef elements for the fields to use.

At some point, I started to experience a strange error - when I was deploying the solution, I would get an error:

Overwrite on Matt Thornton

Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid field name.