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Prerequisites

Our products can be installed on SharePoint versions 2016+.

Note: in order to install or upgrade on SP2013 you need to install component version released prior to July 2023.

Before installing please ensure that;

You are using the farm administrator account
Your account has Read/Write access to both configuration and content databases
If your farm contains more than one server, use one of the web front end servers, that is hosting Central Administration, to run the installer.
Note if your Central Administration is not on a WFE Server you should have Web application service started on that server in order for the installer to work.
Note that when User Access Control (UAC) is enabled on the server, you need to start the installer by right-clicking and selecting “Run as Administrator”
Note that when installing products with timer-based components, it is recommended to restart SharePoint Timer service on all servers prior to installation and after it, such as
- Ultimate Forms
- Alerts
- Actions
- Import
Make sure .json is not a blocked file extension in your environment. You can specify what file types are blocked in Central Administration.
If you are using SharePoint 2013, turn on multiple metadata formats:
- Ensure that your farm has WCF Data Services 5.6. You can download the installer from here: WCF Data Services 5.6.0, install on all WFE servers. Note: if that page is not available you can download the install exe directly from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=320724
- Copy the following PS script into a text file, save it as a ps1 file and execute on one of your farm WFE servers, this script will adjust SP web configs to use the new WCF Data services.

$configOwnerName = "JSONLightDependentAssembly"

$spWebConfigModClass ="Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebConfigModification"

$dependentAssemblyPath ="configuration/runtime/*[local-name()='assemblyBinding' and namespace-uri()='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1']"

$dependentAssemblyNameStart ="*[local-name()='dependentAssembly'][*/@name='"
$dependentAssemblyNameEnd = "'][*/@publicKeyToken='31bf3856ad364e35'][*/@culture='neutral']"

$dependentAssemblyValueStart = ""

$edmAssemblyName ="Microsoft.Data.Edm"
$odataAssemblyName ="Microsoft.Data.Odata"
$dataServicesAssemblyName ="Microsoft.Data.Services"
$dataServicesClientAssemblyName ="Microsoft.Data.Services.Client"
$spatialAssemblyName ="System.Spatial"


$assemblyNamesArray = $edmAssemblyName,$odataAssemblyName,$dataServicesAssemblyName,$dataServicesClientAssemblyName, $spatialAssemblyName


Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
$webService = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService


################ Adds individual assemblies ####################

For ($i=0; $i -lt 5; $i++)  
{
    echo "Adding Assembly..."$assemblyNamesArray[$i]

    $dependentAssembly = New-Object $spWebConfigModClass
    $dependentAssembly.Path=$dependentAssemblyPath
    $dependentAssembly.Sequence =0 # First item to be inserted
    $dependentAssembly.Owner = $configOwnerName
    $dependentAssembly.Name =$dependentAssemblyNameStart + $assemblyNamesArray[$i] + $dependentAssemblyNameEnd
    $dependentAssembly.Type = 0 #Ensure Child Node
    $dependentAssembly.Value = $dependentAssemblyValueStart + $assemblyNamesArray[$i] + $dependentAssemblyValueEnd

    $webService.WebConfigModifications.Add($dependentAssembly)
}

###############################################################

echo "Saving Web Config Modification"

$webService.Update()
$webService.ApplyWebConfigModifications()

echo "Update Complete"