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SharePoint 2013 Plans Part II
In August 2012 KnowledgeLake announced their Support Plan for SharePoint 2013. KnowledgeLake wanted to let customers know that they have been working closely with Microsoft to ensure that the KnowledgeLake solution provides support for SharePoint 2013.
It is our job to ensure that our Support strategy and software are ready before customers are. We are taking advantage of new technologies that will be included with the product suite and dedicating time and resources to adapt our products for 2013 support. Floyd Bell, Director of Product Development, KnowledgeLake
New SharePoint 2013 Search Concepts – Part 1
With SharePoint 2013 comes some improvements to Search, enabling users to find relevant information more quickly and easily than ever before. Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting some new search concepts in SharePoint 2013, and I wanted to start by leading you to a great blog post by Steve Curran – Microsoft MVP and Senior Engineer at KnowledgeLake.
Steve’s blog post focuses on KnowledgeLake Imaging and explains how to customize SharePoint 2013 Search Display Templates. With 2013 – you have the ability to customize your search results with the new display templates feature and you can use built-in features of KnowledgeLake Imaging to render thumbnail previews of the majority of your documents in SharePoint (like PDF) and a link to view the document in KnowledgeLake’s Imaging Viewer.
Customers – New Imaging 4.4.1 Available
Good Morning!
We are pleased to announce the release of Imaging for SharePoint 4.4.1. This is the release of in our Imaging product focuses on providing needed functionality to our Enterprise customers in addition to providing several customer-facing features including:
- Improved Viewer and Search Web Part performance
- Customers may now select which features are available in the Query Results Web Part
- Customers will have more options available in the Service Application configuration of the KnowledgeLake Viewer
- New file types are supported in the KnowledgeLake Viewer (txt, xml, rtf, xlsm)
Print? I thought we were getting rid of paper?
While KnowledgeLake focuses primarily on helping folks scan to process or scan to archive, there are always those points in the process where someone needs to print off a 300 page document for a little late-night reading. So in the past (unless you only needed a few pages) that document would have been downloaded to the desktop and opened by the native application for printing. This presents extra steps as well as certain security concerns to the admins. Well this process is a thing of the past. With the latest release of KnowledgeLake Imaging (4.4), the user experience for printing from a web browser is now akin to printing from a desktop application. Say goodbye to the multiple web instances for rendering the document, and the max page limitation. Say hello to printing entire documents or a range of pages within a document from either the KnowledgeLake search results or the KnowledgeLake Viewer.
Buried In Big Data
I’ve seen references to recent Gartner reports that paint a challenging landscape for the future of content management for companies of all sizes. In one report, Gartner states
by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the discipline of information governance successfully.[1]
and in another Gartner shows part of the problem
…employees within an organisation generate more than 3GB of data each year and this is set to increase by more than 600% over the next five years. The effect of this is that 30% of a typical working day will be spent looking for information or documents, meaning a company with 1000 employees could spend around R40 million in lost productivity.
Implementing IValueProvider to Interface with KnowledgeLake Unify
KnowledgeLake has recently released a new product called Unify that integrates with LOB applications and is capable of retrieving and injecting values into those applications. Unify also integrates with the KnowledgeLake Imaging Viewer to allow property values to be retrieved or injected into the Silverlight index panel inside of the viewer. A nice feature of the KnowledgeLake index panel is that it is extensible, allowing a developer to write their own custom behaviors while indexing. This post will explain how to make custom index panel extensions accessible in KnowledgeLake Unify.
Extend your ECM Investment through Paper Reduction
SharePoint is probably already implemented, to some extent, in your organization with people using it for collaboration of electronic content. Let’s take a different approach and look exclusively at paper documents. Most organizations still struggle with the storage of paper documents and are spending a surprising amount of money to file, locate, copy, mail and reproduce them. Handling paper is time consuming and expensive. Part of the challenge is that SharePoint does not provide an out-of-the-box mechanism to get paper documents into SharePoint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Integrating a Simple SharePoint Web Part with KnowledgeLake View
In my last blog post, I gave a general overview of how to integrate your applications with the KnowledgeLake Imaging Viewer. In this post, I will demonstrate the end to end process on how to create a simple web part that integrates with a KnowledgeLake Viewer Web Part on the same page. You will need the following prerequisites in order to get started.
- A test SharePoint 2010 environment with KnowledgeLake Imaging Server 4.1 installed
- Visual Studio 2010
- A basic understanding of the C# and javascript programming languages
- A basic understanding of SharePoint web part development
Basic Application Integration with the KnowledgeLake Viewer
The KnowledgeLake Image Viewer is a highly versatile Silverlight Application that can be used to view, annotate and encrypt documents within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The viewer features very tight integration with SharePoint 2010 and the rest of the KnowledgeLake Imaging product suite, including the ability to edit document metadata (index), harness the additional indexing capabilities of Knowledglake Index, checkin/checkout documents and even to browse related documents using KnowledgeLake Search.
In this post, I will talk about the different ways the viewer can be used from within an external application. There are 2 main ways to interact with the viewer which I will cover in more detail in the sections below: