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:

a. Open Visual Studio 2010.

b. Create Console application.

c. Replace the code with the following.

1. using System;

2. using System.Collections.Generic;

3. using System.Linq;

4. using System.Text;

5. using Microsoft.SharePoint;

6. using System.Reflection;

7. namespace ItemScheduling

8. {

9. class Program   

10. {

11. static void Main(string[] args)       

12. {

13. using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://serverName:1111/"))           

14. {

15. using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)               

16. {

17. SPList list=web.Lists["Shared Documents"];                   

18. list.EnableModeration = true;                    

19. list.EnableMinorVersions = true;                   

20. list.Update();

21. //To enable Scheduling in the list                  

22. Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.EnableScheduling(list);

23. //To disable Scheduling in the list                   

24. Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.DisableScheduling(list);               

25. }           

26. }       

27. }   

28. }

29. }

d. Hit F5.

Using PowerShell enable or disable item scheduling:

1. $site=Get-SPSite "http://serverName:1111/"

2. $web=$site.RootWeb

3. $list=$web.Lists

4. $list.EnableModeration=$true

5. $list.EnableMinorVersions=$true

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

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