The SPSCM is a system which allows the management of configuration information in a centralized way.
One of the biggest problems that the SharePoint administrators can encounter is that when installing and configuring a webpart the webpart properties remain fixed and can only be modified by the administrator or the designer.
In other occasions, we configure several webparts using the same properties, for example a report, a query, etc….; When we wish to obtain a different report, or specify a different query, we must manually change all these webparts properties.
From this necessity as well as for future solutions that are being developed by SPSProfessional , SPSCM has emerged.
Installation
The installation of SPSCM is as an added solution, and the activation and deactivation is done by a feature.
See: Install SPSProfessional Solutions
See: SPSProfessional Configuration Manager Installation Video
However for security reasons, this feature has the particularity of not being visible, meaning it can not be turned on and off from the SharePoint administrator.
The command bar must be used to enable and disable this feature.
Activation
To activate the feature you must do it through (remember, first you must install the solution file)
Stsadm –o activatefeature –name SPSProfessional_ConfigurationManager –url [url]
And the [url] will be the url sites collection where the list “SPSProfessional Configuration Manager” will be installed.
Deactivation
To disable the feature the command is:
Stsadm –o deactivatefeature –name SPSProfessional_ConfigurationManager –url [url]
And the Url must be the same as in the previous case, the Url sites collection from which it will be removed.
Similarly and for security reasons, the list is not deleted when disabling the feature, only the menu option will be deleted from the site administration and it will be in the same way that the events associated to the list will be removed when the feature is disabled.
Once the feature is installed, we will have a list, named “SPSProfessional Configuration Manager” This list is not visible to the naked eye it must be accessed through the site collection administration.
The list has the standard permissions the same as the site lists, in this way you will be the responsible for administering permissions.
Of course you must allow reading access to all users from your site collection otherwise they (the webparts) won’t be able to read the values in it.
And the list it shown as
