• The Web3 Data Consistency Checker has been updated to support changing the EPiServer SiteURL. After changing the EPiServer SiteURL running the consistency checker will update all topic tags to match the newly configured SiteURL.
• Fixes an issue with where editing LinkCollections would throw an exception if any contained relative URLs.
• The module now works better alongside other properties in Edit mode that also use jQuery by using a private version.

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"

Visit the Downloads page to download Concepts for EPiServer 1.1.2 and Web3 Platform.

Visit the Downloads page to download Concepts for EPiServer 1.1.1 and Web3 Platform.

Upgrade Instructions

To upgrade from Web3 1.3, 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.

To upgrade from previous versions of Web3, follow the upgrade instructions above and then open the Web3 site in your browser. Each topic map on the Web3 site must be resynchronized with its schema (if it has one). To do this, click on the topic map name in the topic map list and then on the topic map page click on the Jobs button. On the topic map jobs page, click on the Synchronize Schema button to start the synchronization process. It is also possible to perform this synchronization operation using the Web3 Admin powershell snap-in. Further details on the upgrade process can be found in the README file contained in the installation ZIP package.

Change Log

• FEATURE: Topic and associations retrieved as XTM now include an automatically generated item identifier based on the Web3 internal GUID identifier for the item.
• FEATURE: Added support for the "no" language code for Norwegian in addition to the existing "nb" (for Bokmal) and "nn" (for Nynorsk)

• FEATURE: The New-Schema cmdlet has been updated to provide better feedback when the command files due to missing files or server errors.
• BUGFIX: Fixed an editor issue where topic types that were derived from abstract types could not be selected as the type for a topic instance.
• BUGFIX: The Get-Schema cmdlet has been renamed to Export-Schema for consistency. This cmdlet has also been fixed to ensure that only the XML format is retrieved from the server.
• BUGFIX: Fixed a browser caching issue that prevented the browser from displaying the updated topic types after synchronizing schemas.
• BUGFIX: Fixed a typo with the documentation of the New-Schema cmdlet which showed the command in the command summary as "Add-Schema".
• BUGFIX: Fixed bug in client-side javascript library that prevented editing of date/time fields.
• BUGFIX: Fixed alt-text of the Edit button on the schema display page.
• BUGFIX: Changed the Javascript library function for testing if an item is in an array to avoid a name clash with SharePoint's Javascript libraries.
• BUGFIX: Fixed an issue with parsing schema files that include white-space around type subject identifiers.
• BUGFIX: Fixed problem with SPARQL FILTER clauses not being consistently applied in certain queries.
• BUGFIX: Fixed bug in client side javascript utility for comparing objects.

We would like to thank those developers and users who took the time to report issues to us for fixing in this release.

• Service paths including Web3 and Concepts page are now configurable via web.config. See the included documentation in how these are configured.
• PageTemplate mapping configuration has now been removed. This means that when using the Web3DataHelper methods RelatedTopicLinks() the name of the page template must be included.

Download Concepts for EPiServer 1.1

The demo package is available from our Downloads page and can be installed using the EPiServer Deployment Centre.  Included is a step-by-step installation and walkthrough guide.

A couple of Javascript issues with the new Topic Map Editor in Web3 have been brought to our attention.

1. The Types list in the topic editor does not list topic types which are subtypes of an abstract type. This problem prevents the user from adding a subtype of an abstract type to the list of topic types and it also means that when editing a topic which is an instance of a type that inherits from an abstract type, the editing process actually deletes the topic type.
2. The Date/Time field validation doesn't work correctly with the JSON date/time values generated by the Web3 server. This problem shows up when the user enters a valid date/time string into a date/time field and saves the value. The value is correctly stored on Web3, but when the user reloads the topic into the topic editor the field shows the date/time as "NaN-NaN-NaN NaN:NaN:NaN" and displays a validation error.

These issues are addressed in a JS file patch which can be downloaded from here. To install the patch, unzip the file to a temporary directory and then copy the two Javascript files inside it to the directory Server\js under your Web3 installation directory (typically c:\Program Files\NetworkedPlanet\Web3) - these files will replace the two existing Javascript files that contained the errors described above.

Please note: after the update, your browser may still use a locally cached version of these scripts. To ensure that you are using the updated version of the scripts it may be necessary to clear your browser cache.

If you have any problems with this update or other issues with Web3 please do not hesitate to contact us.

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.