Monthly Archives: August 2010

Public-Facing Website on SharePoint 2010 – Part 2: Web Forms

I just need a contact form. Simple, right?

I would have thought creating a contact from on our new website would be easy as pie. It is….if you are talking instead about calculating Pi….to the 100th decimal place.

Our old, static website had a custom-coded .asp webform which pushed traffic to pre-determined email recipients in the company. At first, I thought about porting this code over to keep everything as is, but this is SharePoint, why not make it more robust?

Creating a Basic KnowledgeLake Index Extension

One of the most common customizations to KnowledgeLake software is to customize the act of Indexing, or applying metadata to SharePoint documents. While KnowledgeLake software has always made these customizations possible, it has never been easier than with the newly redesigned Index component built into KnowledgeLake Imaging 4.0.

In this post, I will walk through how to create a very basic KnowledgeLake Index extension that will load a special default value into a DueDate column. This extension can easily be deployed for farm-wide use in the KnowledgeLake Imaging Index Edit Form, the KnowledgeLake Viewer, the KnowledgeLake Search Query Results Web Part and the KnowledgeLake Search Query Results built into the KnowledgeLake Search Center. This post assumes you have some existing Knowledge of programming with Visual Studio and some general, high level Knowledge of how the KnowledgeLake Index Behaviors integrate with SharePoint 2010's Content Types.

Imaging 4.0 Rx for SharePoint 2010 Health Monitoring and Analysis

SharePoint Foundation (aka WSS v4) comes with some new monitoring and analysis features to give administrator better control over activity and performance of SharePoint 2010 Farm via rules (SharePoint Maintenance Engine) and reporting. At KnowledgeLake we knew we needed a little something extra to effectively support our SharePoint and KnowledgeLake implementations, enter the KnowledgeLake Log Viewer, a Microsoft Silverlight application.

Public-Facing Website on SharePoint 2010 – Part 1: Branding

How do I ‘brand’ this thing called SharePoint?

As any good web designer/developer knows, after a site’s aesthetic design is agreed upon; beginning with static page templates (dummy HTML/CSS) is the best starting point.  So I had created my major page templates already….but now to make this ready for SharePoint’s dynamic content.