Exception calling SPListCollection.Add: : Invalid field name. {1faa4902-9115-44b9-bba7-791441ca1d6f}

I get an exception when trying to create a new list using PowerShell (error also happens in C#). This is my PowerShell: $lists = $rootWeb.Lists $index = $lists.Add("avrTest", "", [Microsoft.S...

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Dmitry Dolotovskikh

Copper Contributor

Nov 15, 2018

Just de-activating and re-activating these features fixed the initial problems, but doing them out of order also disabled some publishing features on existing pages. I ended up creating a backup and restoring to a sandbox site multiple times in order to test different orders of de-activation and activation.

stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name publishingresource -url "sitecollectionurl" -force
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name publishingweb -url "subsiteurl" -force
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name publishingsite -url "sitecollectionurl" -force
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name fields -url "sitecollectionurl" -force

And then re-activate the features in the reverse order. The fields feature could be de/re-activated either at the beginning or the end.

TheATL2029
Copper Contributor
Apr 25, 2023
Thanks Dmitry! This fixed the issue we were having as well.

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Exception calling SPListCollection.Add: : Invalid field name. {1faa4902-9115-44b9-bba7-791441ca1d6f}