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A First Look at KnowledgeLake Imaging 4.2 for SharePoint 2010

The KnowledgeLake product suite continues to make a huge impact on the SharePoint – Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Market with the upcoming release of Imaging 4.2, targeting October of this year.  This upcoming release is expected to have game-changing new features and enhancements, as well as SDK extensibility that SharePoint developers will buzz about.  In the 7 years that I have worked for KnowledgeLake, I’ve never been as excited about an Imaging software launch as I am for 4.2 and I expect our current customers to feel the same.  This is the first public “sneak peek” of Imaging 4.2 and I am happy to share a few awesome features that will be in this next version.

In-Viewer Keyword Searching & Editing for PDF

KnowledgeLake already provides a loaded browser-based document viewerfor SharePoint, but it just got better.  Keyword / phrase searching for PDF documents is now provided within the viewer, which includes highlighting, relevance ranking and sorting.  Also – when a textual based search is launched from the KnowledgeLake Search Web Part, the value is passed into the viewer; executing the In-Viewer searching immediately after opening the document.  The user can quickly see the document keyword search results in a relevance ranked order.
KnowledgeLake Viewer In-Document Search
The KnowledgeLake Viewer also supports PDF document editing, similar to what would be offered when purchasing a license of Adobe Acrobat.  Previously the document could be annotated, stamped, highlighted, redacted, encrypted, book-marked and more.  Now, you can also manipulate page layout by uploading or scanning new pages directly from the viewer.  Pages can also be deleted, rotated, rearranged and replaced and easily saved as an entirely new file in the same location with the same properties.
KnowledgeLake Document Editor

Show Me More like This

Let’s say an employment application is being reviewed within the KnowledgeLake viewer for a potential new hire.  From this document, they want to find documents that correspond to this one; such as other applications or the applicant’s resume.  With one button, then end user is now empowered with this functionality.  A “Related Documents” search quickly returns corresponding documents that can be sorted and filtered to find optimal results.  An administrator can even enhance this feature through configuration. For instance, an admin can specify that the documents with the Content Type of Application are linked to the Resume Content Type by the column of SSN.  The Administrator can also configure an expected document count that should be returned to serve as a document checklist; a workflow if you will.  The end user just clicks a button to see targeted matches return quickly.
KnowledgeLake Linked Documents Behavior

Export a Collection of Documents from SharePoint

Many SharePoint users have been waiting for a simplified export utility.  KnowledgeLake Imaging
enables authenticated users to execute a search query and export all documents, or a selection of documents from SharePoint to an Administrator configured File Share.  A law firm may need to find all documents associated with a particular case.  They use the Search Center to execute a query which returns the desired documents.  They can then export the set of the documents to a File Share and burn or copy the exported set of documents with the CSV file to external media.  As an added bonus, the CSV file includes a hyperlink for each document that points to the documents relative path within the export folder.  Open this file with Microsoft Excel and you can find the desired file with metadata and open it using this hyperlink. With more than 60 new features coming with this release of KnowledgeLake Imaging 4.2, I’m sure there is something here for everyone!  Check back in soon or just subscribe to this feed for more updates on what’s coming this fall.
Floyd Bell
Director of Product Management
KnowledgeLake, Inc.

Extensibility Provided by the KnowledgeLake SDK – Custom 2010 Index Panels

The KnowledgeLake SDK allows for many types of
customizations to our full suite of products. This ranges from custom index
panels in client products to custom activities in Capture Server. This post is
broken down into each extension point and includes descriptions, details, and
screenshot samples to give you a better idea of how the SDK can fit your needs.

The SDK is sold as two distinct products:

  • KnowledgeLake Imaging SDK
  • KnowledgeLake Capture Suite SDK

The Capture Suite is made up of the Capture, Capture Server
and Connect SDKs.

Customized Retrieval of Index Panel Values Using the KnowledgeLake SDK

In this post I will demonstrate how to pass values from a Windows Form into the KnowledgeLake SharePoint 2010 Client Index Panel. The ideas expressed in this example can easily be transposed to accommodate web
service calls, etc.