When you run a manual installation, you can only enter a Web application URL into the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell program. But if your server has many Web applications, then how can you use a Bamboo Web Part on other Web applications after a manual install? In this article, I will show you how to resolve this problem.
For example, You run the manual installation with http://servername:
Your server has many Web applications, such as http://servername, http://servername:40, and http://servername:81:
When you go to a Web application where the URL was not inputted to the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell program, you won’t see the Bamboo Solutions Folder add a Bamboo Web Part:
To resolve this issue, we’ll follow these steps:
Go to Site Settings → Site Collection Features to see the product features:
Initially, the status of the product feature is inactive:
Click the Activate button to activate the desired feature:
Go to your site → Page tab → click Edit page → Insert tab → Web Part; you will see the Bamboo Solutions folder here:
But if you try to insert a Web Part on your site, an error message will appear (since we have not yet deployed it):
To resolve this error, go to Central Administration → System Settings → Manage farm Solutions:
Click on the WSP link of your product:
Click the Deploy Solution hyperlink:
Select the Web application that you want to use. Click the OK button:
Go back to your site and add the Web Part to the page:
It will now render error-free:
Read our entire series on manual installation:
- How to Use Bamboo Web Parts on Other Web Applications After Manual Installation on the SharePoint 2013 Server
- How to Use Bamboo Web Parts When Creating a New Web Application After a Manual Installation on the SharePoint 2013 Server
- How to Manually Install a Bamboo Product on the SharePoint 2013 Server
- How to Manually Uninstall a Bamboo Product from the SharePoint 2013 Server
