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New search functionality in 3.5

Monday, March 10th, 2008

This last week saw the release of KnowledgeTree 3.5.2. From a functional perspective, we've had some great developments regarding search that I'm wanting to comment on. KnowledgeTree now includes a search grammar/language, allowing users to construct search queries on almost any field relating to a document. The new search engine provides ...

Integrate with the KnowledgeTree Webservice using Borland Delphi

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Bjarte Kalstveit Vebjørnsen has contributed a port of the KTWSAPI library to Borland Delphi. The KTWSAPI is an object model based on the functions exposed via the KnowledgeTree SOAP Webservice. Bjarte has created a port of the PHP KTWSAPI object model to Delphi 2006 using components from the Indy Project. His ...

KnowledgeTree Webservice included in 3.4 STABLE

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

3.4 STABLE is about to be released and includes the KnowledgeTree webservice. The webservice exposes key functions that exist within KnowledgeTree via SOAP so that third parties can easily integrate their applications and KnowledgeTree. The webservice is based on the ktapi object model, which wraps the internal functionality into a layer ...

KnowledgeTree Developer Documentation

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The KnowledgeTree developer documentation is slightly lacking, and we are undertaking an exercise to improve this situation. Over the next few weeks, we will be trying to create tutorials to cover key areas that KnowledgeTree developers need to know about. Recently, I have written two tutorials: How to write a dashboard dashlet ...

KnowledgeTree 3.3.7 STABLE Released

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The latest stable release of KnowledgeTree has been released. This release includes minor bug fixes and a security issue. The security issue is related to installations authenticating with Active Directory. It is advised that users of the Active Directory authentication upgrade as soon as possible.

Integrating into the KnowledgeTree web service

Monday, April 30th, 2007

The latest development release of KnowledgeTree, 3.4.5 DEV, now exposes a SOAP web service. This is opens up the platform so that 3rd parties can easily integrate their applications into the document repository. Documentation can be found at http://docs.knowledgetree.com. A quick start guide is provided with a quick overview of the functionality ...

Improved Upgrade Utility

Monday, March 5th, 2007

The upgrade utility has been improved to provide a database backup and restore functionality. Before attempting any upgrade, it is always best to make a backup. The upgrade utility provides a very easy 'click-through' backup procedure, and the restore process is just as easy.

Monitoring Disk Usage

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I've just been working on two little prototype admin plugins for KnowledgeTree Administrators. The first one is something to monitor disk space, and the other is to assist in cleaning up temporary files. Running out of disk space can cause many serious headaches. Although system administrators should be doing regular maintenance and ...

Running KnowledgeTree on PHP 5.2.x

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I found that KnowledgeTree works out of the box on PHP 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 on Windows XP. I tried to use it on 5.1.6 a few weeks back and all I had was continuous headache with require_once() not working properly and classes being redeclared. So what does this mean? Well, we ...

Bulk importing files and metadata

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I've added a script to the KnowledgeTree Forge to assist users in importing files and meta data from other systems. It relies on meta data files based on a .ini configuration file format: [invoice] invoice_date="2006-01-01" invoice_no="001002214" [client] client_name="joe bloggs" invoice and client are the names of field sets, and invoice_date, invoice_no and client_name are fields linked ...