Concepts for SharePoint 1.4 released
Version 1.4 of Concepts for SharePoint is now available. This package addresses a small number of bugs and enhancements. The full change list and upgrade instructions can be found below.
The Concepts for SharePoint package can be downloaded from the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading instructions
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Unzip the download package and run the STSADM -upgradesolution command. 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 ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -filename ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -local
Restart IIS and the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service
If running CfS on a separate server to that of the Web3 Platform, you will also need to upgrade the additional web3.wsp file contained in the upgrade package and restart the services.
For full upgrade and usage instructions, please refer to the documentation contained in the downloaded package
Change Log
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ENHANCEMENT: Allow the filtering of items returned by the ContentQueryWebPart by SharePoint content type
ENHANCEMENT: performance improvement by removing unnecessary topic reference look ups
ENHANCEMENT: Any field internal name can be set on the ContentQueryWebPart to be used as the value for the title displayed in links. If empty the Web Part uses the item's display name
BUGFIX: Changes to timer jobs to ensure that jobs do not continue to attempt to run on sites which have been deleted
BUGFIX: Changes to feature deactivation to ensure that all jobs are properly removed when CfS is deactivated and removed
BUGFIX: Allow TopicMapAddress property to be set on web parts that inherit from the ContentQueryWebPart
BUGFIX: Concept page links in the ContentQueryWebPart were incorrect when on subsites
FEATURE: concept pages can now load topics based on the term ID from the SharePoint term store as well as the standard topic id, address or psi
BUGFIX: Changes to the topic caching to also cache topics by PSI in addition to topic address
ENHANCEMENT: Changed the ContentQueryWebPart to return documents as well as SharePoint list items by default
BUGFIX: SharePointTaxonomyHelper class was closing an SPWeb object that may be needed in the current context for future use
BUGFIX: Added a new handler that ensures that the event handlers required for concept link fields are added to any new subsites created after the initial activated of CfS. This means that CfS will not be required to be reactivated on new subsites
BUGFIX: Fixed bug in Concepts for SharePoint Licensing which caused an intermittent error being thrown: "handle is invalid"
Concepts for SharePoint 1.3 released
Version 1.3 of Concepts for SharePoint is now available. This package introduces a number of features and enhancements. The full change list and upgrade instructions can be found below.
The Concepts for SharePoint package can be downloaded from the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading instructions
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Unzip the download package and run the STSADM -upgradesolution command. 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 ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -filename ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -local
Restart IIS and the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service
If running CfS on a separate server to that of the Web3 Platform, you will also need to upgrade the additional web3.wsp file contained in the upgrade package and restart the services.
For full upgrade and usage instructions, please refer to the documentation contained in the downloaded package
Change Log
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FEATURE: Setting a Site Page to be about a particular topic : by adding a column to the Site Pages library columns collection (and adding the internal name of the field to the CfsServerConfig file, that Site Page can then be set to a particular term in the CfS Term Store. Web Parts placed on that page will then use the topic for that term as their starting topic, unless specifically overridden.
FEATURE: New Abstract Xml SPARQL Web Part class for use by developers to do server side processing of SPARQL queries.
FEATURE: New Abstract Xml One Hop Web Part class for use by developers to do server side processing of the results of a one hop query.
FEATURE: New Abstract Xml Two Hop Web Part class for use by developers to do server side processing of the results of a two hop query.
FEATURE: New Ajax SPARQL Web Part to display the results of a SPARQL query with all processing done client-side and no server-side processing of the query.
FEATURE: New Ajax One Hop Web Part to display the results of a one hop query with all processing done client-side and no server-side processing of the query.
FEATURE: New Ajax Two Hop Web Part to display the results of a two hop query with all processing done client-side and no server-side processing of the query.
FEATURE - New Topic Connector Web Part which loads the full topic representation of a topic (includes all associations)
FEATURE: New daily synchronisation timer job that performs a full synchronisation between the topic map and the SharePoint Managed Metadata Store.
ENHANCEMENT - Changed the profile scraper so that different user topic types can be used for different topic maps that may be in use on SharePoint Site Collections
ENHANCEMENT: External content types can now be created for multiple topic maps in SharePoint Search.
Concepts for SharePoint 1.2 released
Version 1.2 of Concepts for SharePoint is now available. This package introduces a number of features and enhancements. The full change list and upgrade instructions can be found below.
The Concepts for SharePoint package can be downloaded from the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading instructions
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Unzip the download package and run the STSADM -upgradesolution command. 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 ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -filename ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -local
Restart IIS and the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service
If running CfS on a separate server to that of the Web3 Platform, you will also need to upgrade the additional web3.wsp file contained in the upgrade package and restart the services.
For full upgrade and usage instructions, please refer to the documentation contained in the downloaded package
Change Log
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FEATURE: Added Concepts for SharePoint License Manager
FEATURE: User Profile Scraper SharePoint timer job added to pull SharePoint site collection users into the Web3 Platform
FEATURE: New Topic Web Part - adds a new topic from within the SharePointenvironment and redirects to the concept pahe for that topic.
ENHANCEMENT: Changes to the way the topic map is synchronized with the ManagedMetadata Service to speed up the overall synchronization process
ENHANCEMENT: Template mappings can now be configured to load up custom templatesfor concept pages for specific topics based on a topic's PSI
ENHANCEMENT: Related concepts added as a refinement to SharePoint Search
ENHANCEMENT: Additional language strings for Web Parts added to language resource file
ENHANCEMENT: Web Parts that use a starting topic can now be set to "Current User"
ENHANCEMENT: Base topic type concept page allows a new instance of that type to be added from within the SharePoint environment
New Releases of Web3 Platform and Concepts For SharePoint
NetworkedPlanet is pleased to announce the release of new versions of the Web3 Platform and Concepts for SharePoint products.
Web3 1.2
Web3 Platform 1.2 provides a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements over the previous 1.1 release and is a recommended download for all users. Links to the installation packages can be found on the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading from Web3 1.1
To upgrade from 1.1, unzip the installation package and run the installer application in Web3/setup.exe. During installation you will be prompted for database and service configuration information as you were during the initial installation. After installing Web3, you should also upgrade the Web3Admin package on any client machines that use the Powershell administration snap-in. Full installation and upgrade information can be found in the installation package.
Change Log
ENHANCEMENT: SPARQL query implementation now features partial query caching and query execution plan caching for significant performance improvements when processing repeated queries.
ENHANCEMENT: Major performance improvements for XTM import.
ENHANCEMENT: It is no longer necessary to specify the syntax of the uploaded data to the import job processor. The processor will probe the received data to determine the syntax of the content. As a result, the -Xtm20 flag has been removed from the Import-TopicMap cmdlet.
ENHANCEMENT: TopicRef representations now include a link to the referenced topic's type(s).
ENHANCEMENT: TMSPARQL queries now support the DISTINCT keyword.
BUGFIX: Fixed an issue with round-tripping XTM files through a Web3 export/import cycle
BUGFIX: Fixed the deletion of associations to ensure that all child roles are deleted from the database.
BUGFIX: Fixed rendering of RDF/XML topic representation when an item has a subject identifier that uses a fragment identifier.
BUGFIX: Fixed an issue with the License Manager that resulted in the registration form not displaying on some machines.
BUGFIX: Fixed problem with processing SPARQL queries with literal strings that contain special characters escaped by a backslash.
BUGFIX: Fixed jobs list to include failed jobs and to display jobs in descending order of last updated date/time.
Concepts for SharePoint 1.2
Concepts for SharePoint 1.2 provides a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements over the previous 1.1 release and is a recommended download for all users. Links to the installation packages can be found on the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading from CfS 1.1
The following steps must be completed to successfully upgrade from Concepts for SharePoint 1.1 to 1.2.
Further information about how to perform these steps is provided elsewhere in the Installation
documentation.
1.Install the License Manager found at <InstallDir>/ConceptsForSharePointLicenseManager.msi
2.Enter your license serial number and activate your license (or run in trial mode)
3.Upgrade the Concepts for SharePoint solution found at <InstallDir>/ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp
4.[OPTIONAL] If Concepts for SharePoint is not installed on the same server as the Web3 Platform, you
must also upgrade the web3.wsp solution (<InstallDir>/web3.wsp) to deploy the updated Web3
Platform assembly files to the local GAC
5.Add the assembly redirection configuration to the SharePoint Web Application's web.config file
(details of which are provided in the "Configuration" section of this document)
6.Restart IIS
7.Reactivate the NPConceptsForSharePoint feature on all site collections that use Concepts for
SharePoint using the force command where appropriate
8.Restart IIS
9.Restart the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service
Change Log
FEATURE: Added Concepts for SharePoint License Manager
FEATURE: User Profile Scraper SharePoint timer job added to pull SharePoint site collection users into the Web3 Platform
FEATURE: New Topic Web Part - adds a new topic from within the SharePoint environment and redirects to the concept pahe for that topic.
ENHANCEMENT: Changes to the way the topic map is synchronized with the Managed Metadata Service to speed up the overall synchronization process
ENHANCEMENT: Template mappings can now be configured to load up custom templates for concept pages for specific topics based on a topic's PSI
ENHANCEMENT: Related concepts added as a refinement to SharePoint Search
ENHANCEMENT: Additional language strings for Web Parts added to language resource file
ENHANCEMENT: Web Parts that use a starting topic can now be set to "Current User"
ENHANCEMENT: Base topic type concept page allows a new instance of that type to be added from within the SharePoint environment
Web3 Platform Video – Getting Started No 1.
We are putting together a series of short videos that show how to do different things with the Web3 Platform and Concepts for SharePoint. The first of these videos, Web3 Platform Getting Started No 1. is now available.
The Web3 Platform is a complete data driven environment. This means that with no code you can create a data model and immediately begin to add data either through the generated UI or via the RESTful interface. The first video shows how to create a simple schema using the Silverlight editor and then create topics and associations through the schema driven editor.
Concepts for SharePoint 1.1 now available
Version 1.1 of Concepts for SharePoint is now available. This package addresses a small number of bugs and enhancements. The full change list and upgrade instructions can be found below.
The Concepts for SharePoint package can be downloaded from the NetworkedPlanet download page.
Upgrading from 1.0
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To upgrade from 1.0, unzip the download package and run the STSADM -upgradesolution command. 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 ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -filename ConceptsForSharePoint.wsp -allowgacdeployment -local
Restart IIS and the SharePoint 2010 Timer Service
If running CfS on a separate server to that of the Web3 Platform, you will also need to upgrade the additional web3.wsp file contained in the upgrade package and restart the services.
Change Log
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BUGFIX: Query amended to ensure sure that deleted associations whose roles still exist do not get returned in the results of the One Hop Web Part.
FEATURE: New Topic List Web Part renders gridview of topics of type, with custom propertie to show occurrences and/or identifiers in the results set.
DOCS: Amended documentation error that specified the wrong format for message
queues on remote machines.
LOGGING: Additional logging added to make it clear if there has been a security problem when activating the feature through the GUI.
BUGFIX: Documents were not being returned in the content query web parts along with list items.
ENHANCEMENT: Allowed sparql results to be picked up and used by classes which inherit from web parts doing SPARQL queries.
BUGFIX: Null reference exception for starting topic when first adding a TopicInformationWebPart to a page
DOCS: Added full documentation of the NetworkedPlanet.Web3.SharePoint.WebParts class
BUGFIX: Fixed error that was reported about thread aborted after setting topic map in CfS site settings
BUGFIX: template mapping bug fix
BUGFIX: Privileges error fixed when deriving from the BaseTopicWebPart
BUGFIX: adding a second label for a newly installed language pack had a bug which was causing the additional label(s) not to be added to the topic term
BUGFIX: Fixed bug that was causing the SPARQL web part not to render any content in certain situations
BUGFIX: content query web parts were displaying unhelpful error if the topic map had not yet been synchronised with the term store
