Hi,
I'm in the process of migrating a solution from SP2010 to SP2013.
I have a feature that contains a bunch of field definitions. One of the fields is declared as follows:
<Field ID="{594BAF99-9FCA-4c4b-A744-D9F37300024A}" Name="Description" Group="MyGroup" Type="Note" DisplayName="MyDisplayName" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/fields" />
When I try to activate this feature in a site collection, I get the following exception: 'A duplicate field name "Description" was found.'
Narrowing down the issue, I found out that the conflict refers to the "Description" field declared in the standard "Fields" feature (in the fieldswss3.xml file located in /15/template/features/fields folder):
<Field ID="{3f155110-a6a2-4d70-926c-94648101f0e8}" Name="Description" StaticName="Description" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/fields" Type="Note" DisplayName="$Resources:core,GBW_FC_Description_Field;" Group="_Hidden" Sealed="TRUE" ReadOnly="TRUE">
Notice that, eventhough the internal name is the same in both fields, the "Group" is different.
This worked fine in SP2010. Is it a bug on SP2013? Can anybody tell me if there's a chance this will be fixed in a future release?