Last updated June 9, 2011. Created by clemens.tolboom on September 17, 2009.
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To get started just install and enable the features module.
The following screenshots are from a D6 install but are still valid for a D7 install.
At admin/build/features | D7: admin/structure/features you can manage installed features or create new ones.
Creating a new feature leads you through a few selections where you can add different aspects of your website related to one feature. In the end a download file is presented which you can save. The tar.gz file contains 'just' a module which can be installed onto your current working site or onto other sites.
When you install a feature on a site and you reconfigure some parts of the site related to one or more features the state of these features will change. You have then to decide what to do. Are these changes intentional then you should (re)export the feature and save the tarball. Or choose to revert to the original state.
The following paragraph does not apply for D7 as the modules are visible
When navigating to admin/build/modules the installed feature modules are not listed but their names appear in the module dependencies. This is weird at first but logical in the end. Features are managed on admin/build/features and disabling just the module has bad side effects.
