Exploring SharePoint Publishing Feature to Configure From Onet.xml

When you create your own publishing site definition then you can configure SharePoint out of the box publishing feature in onet.xml


Example: when you open onet.xml of existing publishing site definition then you find publishing feature configured like this:

<Feature ID="22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416">


<Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">


<Property Key="ChromeMasterUrl" Value=""/>


<Property Key="WelcomePageUrl" Value="$Resources:cmscore,List_Pages_UrlName;/default.aspx"/>


<Property Key="PagesListUrl" Value=""/>


<Property Key="AvailableWebTemplates" Value=""/>


<Property Key="AvailablePageLayouts" Value=""/>

<Property Key="SimplePublishing" Value="true" />


</Properties>


</Feature>

So you can obviously copy and paste this OOB configuration to use in your custom site definition,

So as curiosity I was googling for more options using which we can configure publishing feature , in fact I was trying to explore more properties of this feature and I came to know that there are many more properties available using which you can configure this feature, like : Scheduling of pages , versioning, workflow settings of pages library.

AlternateCssUrl


AvailablePageLayouts


AvailableWebTemplates


ChromeMasterUrl


EnableApprovalWorkflowOnDocuments


EnableApprovalWorkflowOnImages


EnableApprovalWorkflowOnPages


EnableModerationOnDocuments


EnableModerationOnImages


EnableModerationOnPages


EnableSchedulingOnDocuments


EnableSchedulingOnImages


EnableSchedulingOnPages


MigrationOverride


PagesListUrl


RequireCheckoutOnDocuments


RequireCheckoutOnImages


RequireCheckoutOnPages


SimplePublishing


VersioningOnDocuments


VersioningOnImages


VersioningOnPages

Refn: Sezai’s blog and this beautiful link