Web3 and Concepts for SharePoint 1.0 Releases Now Available
We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 1.0 release of our Web3 Platform and Concepts for SharePoint products.
The Web3 Platform is our "next-generation" structured information server built on the foundation of topic maps but with support for Linked Data standards including RDF and the SPARQL query language. The Web3 Platform provides a fully-featured REST API making it possible to create applications in almost any programming language and to quickly and easily integrate structured information into existing applications and websites. The Web3 service provides full support for the topic maps data model and support for browsing content as Linked Data RDF as well as providing a SPARQL endpoint that implements support for querying topic map data as RDF as well as querying at the detailed topic map data model level.
Concepts for SharePoint is simply the best way to organise, search for and find content on a SharePoint 2010 server. It integrates with and extends the taxonomy features of SharePoint 2010, allowing users to create richly interconnected data models that reflect the business in which they work. Unlike the tags in a standard SharePoint 2010 taxonomy, the concepts in Concepts for SharePoint can be made available as published pages complete with links to other concepts and to related content across the whole SharePoint server.
Both products are available for evaluation. Download them now!
Web3 Platform Beta Now Available!
The Networked Planet Web3 Platform is a complete solution for creating, organising and publishing structured semantic data. The Web3 platform stores and manages data in a schema less data store, allowing complete flexibility of the shape of the data stored.
This is the first public beta of the NetworkedPlanet Web3 Platform. This beta version is licensed for use until 31st July 2010. We are planning to refresh this Beta release on a regular basis up until the final 1.0 release is available. To keep track of update announcements please subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog.
SharePoint Module 3.1 Hotfix 6 now available
A new hotfix package is available for version 3.1 of the TMCore SharePoint Module. This package addresses a small number of bugs and provides new features. The full change list can be found below.
Systems Affected
This hotfix should be applied to any installation of the TMCore SharePoint Module 3.1 downloaded before 15th March 2010. If you downloaded your copy of the software from our site on or after this date, the hotfix is included in the package and you do not need to apply it again.
To determine if your system is affected, check the File Version property of the assembly NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint in the GAC (browse to C:\Windows\ASSEMBLY, locate the NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint assembly, right-click and choose Properties. The File Version can be found on the Version tab above Description and Copyright). This hotfix updates the File Version of the NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint assembly to 2.1.6.0 - if the file version shown is greater than or equal to 2.1.6.0, then you do not need to apply this hotfix.
Pre-Requisites
Upgrade to TMCore SP5 (if running an earlier version) to avoid issues with faceted search components in the SharePoint Module.
Upgrade Instructions
1. Download the Hotfix 6 package.
2. The package is provided in a compressed ZIP file. Unzip the package on a machine in the server farm.
3. Upgrade the NPSharePoint.wsp solution. The exact command-line you use will depend on how you want to schedule the upgrade, but will be similar to:
stsadm -o upgradesolution -name NPSharePoint.wsp -filename NPSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -allowcaspolicies -local
4. Restart IIS and Windows SharePoint Services Timer
Change Log
- ENHANCEMENT: Optimized update of associated topic fields to reduce the number of database writes required when saving a SharePoint list item.
Added more logging of SharePoint object close and disposal.
- ENHANCEMENT: Added check to ItemUpdated event receiver to check whether a double event was caused by a check-in. If so, do not do processing for check-in events.
- BUGFIX: Amended the site deletion code so that topics for sub sites are correctly marked as superceded if the site is the root site of a site collection. This allows the WebCleanUp timer task to successfully remove any topics of the superceded sites on its next run.
- BUGFIX: Site deletion - if a site deletion fails in SharePoint for any reason, the WebCleanUp timer task that runs 2 minutes after the delete event will now also check whether the site still exists and if so set the psi back to PUBLISHED.
TMCore07 SP5 Released
NetworkedPlanet today announces the release of latest version of the TMCore topic map engine. TMCore is the premiere toolkit for developers on .NET looking to harness the full power of Topic Maps in their applications. Built from the ground-up using .NET technologies, TMCore provides a flexible set of APIs and builds on the robustness, scalability, performance of Microsoft's SQL Server.
The new SP5 release of TMCore07 fixes a packaging issue found with the SP4 release that may prevent the faceted search features of the TMCore SharePoint Module from working correctly. Customers having a current support contract or currently evaluating TMCore may receive TMCore07 SP5 free of charge.
For download details please email us at contact@networkedplanet.com.
SharePoint Module 3.1 Hotfix 4 now available
A new hotfix package is available for version 3.1 of the TMCore SharePoint Module. This package addresses a small number of bugs and provides new features. The full change list can be found below.
Systems Affected
This hotfix should be applied to any installation of the TMCore SharePoint Module 3.1 downloaded before 10th December 2009. If you downloaded your copy of the software from our site on or after this date, the hotfix is included in the package and you do not need to apply it again.
To determine if your system is affected, check the File Version property of the assembly NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint in the GAC (browse to C:\Windows\ASSEMBLY, locate the NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint assembly, right-click and choose Properties. The File Version can be found on the Version tab above Description and Copyright). This hotfix updates the File Version of the NetworkedPlanet.SharePoint assembly to 2.1.4.0 - if the file version shown is greater than or equal to 2.1.4.0, then you do not need to apply this hotfix.
Upgrade Instructions
1. Download the Hotfix 4 package.
2. The package is provided in a compressed ZIP file. Unzip the package on a machine in the server farm.
3. Upgrade the NPSharePoint.wsp solution. The exact command-line you use will depend on how you want to schedule the upgrade, but will be similar to:
stsadm -o upgradesolution -name NPSharePoint.wsp -filename NPSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -allowcaspolicies -local
4. Upgrade the NPOfficeServer.wsp solution. Use the following STSADM command:
stsadm -o upgradesolution -name NPOfficeServer.wsp -filename NPOfficeServer.wsp -allowgacdeployment -allowcaspolicies -local
5. Run the following stsadm command:
stsadm -o copyappbincontent
6. Restart IIS and Windows SharePoint Services Timer
7. Reactivate the NPDiagnostics feature by running the stsadm command:
stsadm -o activatefeature -name NPDiagnostics -force
8. Upgrade Enterprise Services to the version included with the hotfix, the new version of Enterprise Services is 1.1.2.0
9. Restart the Topic Map Index Service
Change Log
- BUGFIX: One hop and two hop web parts were intermittently returning Deadlock errors. These have
now been changed to sleep and retry up to a maximum of three times when encountering
deadlock issues with the database. - ENHANCEMENT: Url Mappings can now feature more than one publish URL for a web application by using
the zones set up when extending the SharePoint web application. - ENHANCEMENT: Additional diagnostic logging has been added to Url Mapping. The NPDiagnostics
feature must be reactivated on the farm for this to take affect. - FEATURE: The stsadm remapurls command now has an optional parameter which when used skips the url
remapping on content type to topic type mappings. - NOTE: The new hotfix of Enterprise Services has been included with this hotfix. This fixes issues with
results display and ordering when using advanced faceted search restriction sets.
EPiServer Module 3.3.0.40 Released
TMCore EPiServer Module 3.3.0.40 has now been released. This update addresses these issues;
-Editing a page that is not part of the MasterLanguage branch using the On-Page-Editor caused the saving of the page to fail.
-Paging of topic results when searching from the Topic List was unreliable. This has now been addressed and paging now works when searching for topics.
As well as these issues the performance of the module in Edit mode has been improved. The plugin no longer calls the TMService until its plugin tab has been clicked on by the editor.
When upgrading from a previous release, please ensure that you empty your web browser cache so that your receive the most recent Javascript and CSS files served from the web server.
NetworkedPlanet announces TMCore SharePoint Module 3.1
13/02/2009, NetworkedPlanet are pleased to annouce the release of version 3.1 of the TMCore SharePoint Module.
The TMCore SharePoint Module is a tight integration between Microsoft SharePoint and the TMCore information management server that greatly improves the way information is organised, classified and located with Microsoft SharePoint solutions.
This new release sees a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, but more significantly it includes a number of features that have been requested by our customers including support for paged faceted search results and some new facet selectors for faceted search; more flexible auto-classification schemes; and the ability to filter and sort SharePoint lists by the classification information attached to the list items.
The new version is available as an upgrade for all customers with a current maintenance contract. For more information and download details please email us.
Networked Planet wins “Module of the Year” prize for EasySearch
Oslo 12/11/08, at the EPiServer Techforum NetworkedPlanet were awarded the Module of the Year prize on EPiCode for EasySearch.
EasySearch is a powerful, simple to configure, search engine for the EPiServer content management system. It supports full text indexing of pages and files based on EPiserver events. Further, it provides facilities to developers to refine the indexes that are created to provide the best possible search experience for the customer.
The EasySearch module comes complete with a generic search and indexing API for developers, completely customizable indexing, an administrator plug-in for managing the index and several ASP.NET 2.0 web parts for building search pages and search driven web sites in seconds.
EasySearch is also gaining enterprise search level features with support for load balanced and federated searching.
NetworkedPlanet technical lead on EasySearch, Andy Brodie, had this to say about EasySearch:
"There was a clear need in the EPiServer community for a robust, easily configurable and developer friendly search engine. With EasySearch we’ve done all the under the hood event processing and exposed a set of interfaces and hooks that really empower developers to quickly build great search solutions."
Graham Moore Director of NetworkedPlanet added "Having the EPiCode platform was an ideal way for us to take EasySearch to market. We have had great support from BVNetwork and the EPiServer developer community in building this module."
Steve Celius of BVNetwork said on the day "NetworkedPlanet follows best practices when developing the search module for EPiServer CMS, giving full insight into each step of the development by committing often and providing good comments. They respond to tickets in a timely manner and make new releases available often. The source is of high quality and contains some of the most advanced event handling and page life cycle tracking available on the EPiServer platform."
For more information, please download a technical overview of EasySearch.
TMCL moves towards finalisation in ISO process
The Topic Map Constraint Language standard, which defines a way to create constraints/ schema for topic maps is moving into the final stages of the ISO process.
This standard is really comprised of two parts; the first is a generic framework to enable anyone to create custom constraints and have them evaluated as part of the TMCL evaluation model. The second part defines around 20 built in constraint types for the most common use cases.
TMCL uses the TMDM to store constraints and thus uses CTM as one authoring syntax.
We will be updating and publishing the TMCL tutorial that we have given several times now, both as a full document and as a series of blog entries.
The editors welcome all comments and feedback, the latest document can be found here:
TMCL FCD
New Open-source Full-Text Search Plugin for EPiServer
NetworkedPlanet EasySearch is an integration with Lucene.NET that provides responsive full-text search for EPiServer. It can be installed and configured in moments, integrates directly with the EPiServer event model and provides high-performance full-text search features on any EPiServer web site.
For more information please see the open-source project homepage at http://www.epieasysearch.com/
