ROXORITY FilterZen Product Documentation (Copyright © 2008-2011 ROXORITY.com Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Solution Installation and Feature Activation

1. The FilterZen Setup Package

The FilterZen setup package (the roxority_FilterZen.zip file) is a zipped archive containing:

Extract the setup package to any file-system folder. Do not just run Deploy.exe directly from inside the setup archive — it needs to run from a file system directory that also contains all the supporting files from the setup archive.

2. Installing the FilterZen Solution Package

Run Deploy.exe and when the Welcome screen is displayed, click Next to start a series of system checks. To proceed with the installation, all system checks need to succeed:

Click Next and on the following screen, select the Web Applications to deploy FilterZen to. You can also de-select those Site Collections you do not want the setup wizard, upon successful deployment, to activate the Web Part Feature immediately for you on. (Even when FilterZen is deployed in a Web Application, before you can add and start using the FilterZen Filter Web Part on Web Part Pages inside a web site, the FilterZen Filter Web Part Feature needs to be activated for the parent Site Collection, as described in the Feature Activation section below. For now, the setup wizard performs these activations for you.)

Click Next to start the installation and wait for the deployment jobs and Feature activation to complete. This process can take up to a few minutes.

After deployment and Feature activation have completed, review the installation log:

Once you have successfully completed the setup wizard, you can start using the FilterZen Filter Web Part on Web Part Pages inside the previously selected Site Collections immediately.

3. Activating the Site Collection Feature

The FilterZen Filter Web Part is a SharePoint Site Collection-scoped Feature, which needs to be 'activated' on each Site Collection it is to be used in.

  1. Start from the Web Part Page you want to use the Web Part on. Select Site Settings from the Site Actions menu.
  2. The Site Settings page contains the Site Collection Administration section. In this section, click the Site collection features link. If it doesn't exist, click the Go to top level site settings link in the Site Collection Administration section instead, and on the root web's Site Settings page now displayed, click the Site collection Features link inside the Site Collection Administration section.
  3. The Site Collection Features page should contain a row titled FilterZen Filter Web Part.

ROXORITY FilterZen Product Documentation (Copyright © 2008-2011 ROXORITY.com Ltd. All rights reserved.)