SharePoint 2010 event handler (receiver) not working on personal sites of the MySites site collection

Question

I have a SharePoint 2010 MySites set up on its own web application. There is the standard site collection at the base level, http://site:80/.

The personal sites for each user is at the managed URL /personal/.

I have a working event handler which add items to the Newsfeed when a user adds something to a picture library.

THE PROBLEM: The problem is, this only works if they add to a picture library at the base site collection, http://site:80/, and does NOT work if they add to http://site:80/personal/last first/.

Does anyone know why? The event handler feature is site scoped and my understanding is that it should work on all subsites.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '11 at 16:39

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The problem is that personal sites are not subsites of My Site host. In fact each user's personal site is a site collection on its own. So basically you need to register your event receiver not only for My SIte host, but also for each user's personal site.

answered Oct 17 '11 at 16:39

Nemanja Trifunovic

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I figured. But then there needs to be another receiver to tie this receiver to all new sites which are created? – Anthony Graglia Oct 17 '11 at 17:49
Or you can scope the receiver to "Farm". – Nemanja Trifunovic Oct 17 '11 at 18:02
I tried that and it didn't work. Said it was only web and site scopable. – Anthony Graglia Oct 18 '11 at 06:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '11 at 12:49

Ok. Because you can only 'staple' features to site definitions which will be provisioned in the future, you need a way to activate new features on existing sites.

So, the fix I discovered and used follows:

The default page for the newsfeed is http://site:80/default.aspx. If you create an event receiver and scope it for 'site' and deploy it globally or to that web application, then it will work on the base site collection. Each personal site is a site collection and has the feature but it needs to be activated on each personal site collection.

So, in the default.aspx page, you place the following which will activate the feature if it has not yet been activated.

<script runat="server" type="text/c#">
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {
  base.OnLoad(e);

  String sAccount = (((SPWeb)((SPSite)SPContext.Current.Site).OpenWeb()).CurrentUser.LoginName).Split('\\')[1];
  String basePersonalURL = "http://site:80/personal/";
  String eventReceiverFeatureId = "12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890ab";

  using(SPSite site = new SPSite(basePersonalURL + sAccount)) {
    site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
    using(SPWeb web = site.RootWeb) {
      web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

      try { site.Features.Add(new Guid(eventReceiverFeatureId)); } catch {}

      web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
    }
    site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
  }
}
</script>

You also need to edit the web.config file in order to allow inline code to run for this page. Hope this helps.

This answer is very old and I see many issues with it. I am reviewing old answers and this is from my early SP dev days. Please let me know if you come across this and need help. I can provide updated code. — Anthony Graglia, Jan 08 '14 at 12:17

SharePoint 2010 event handler (receiver) not working on personal sites of the MySites site collection

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