KnowledgeTree 3.0 Beta 1 Released and new Community Systems

30 November, 2005

We are very proud to announce the release of KnowledgeTree 3.0 Beta 1 and the launch of our new community services.

Enhanced Community Services

We have greatly enhanced our community support services with the implementation of a new forum system, bug tracker and development wiki.

• Community Forums

Our community forums are a good place to ask questions about installing, configuring or using KnowledgeTree. Our developers, along with other members of the open source community and our partner network, will endeavour to answer your questions.

• Bug Ticketing System

You can report bugs in the open source KnowledgeTree server software by accessing our online ticketing system. The ticketing system will also provide feedback on the status of your logged issue. You may view issues reported by other people and search the system to determine if your issue has already been reported.

• Development Wiki

You can find out more information about modifying the KnowledgeTree server, developing new functionality or translating the software at the development Wiki. The Wiki is constantly under development and even you may add content to it!

For more information on our community services, please follow the link
below:
https://ktdms.com/community/

KnowledgeTree 3.0 Beta

KnowledgeTree 3.0 is a revolutionary as opposed to evolutionary step: a significant amount of work has been undertaken to make the application easier to both use and develop for.

The entire user interface has undergone a revamp and a powerful new plug-in architecture has been implemented, allowing developers to easily change the behaviour of KnowledgeTree and write new functionality.

KnowledgeTree 3.0 also deepens the functionality already found in the 2.x family of servers and eases the deployment of the system in more complex enterprise environments.

The focus for the KnowledgeTree 3.x product roadmap is:

•  increasing ease of use for both business users and administrators;
•  increasing the application's applicability in regulatory compliance scenarios;
•  cleaning up the application architecture and making it easier for contributing developers to understand and extend the DMS;
•  increasing system scalability, performance and robustness.

New and extended functionality includes:

• Entirely new template-based user interface, allowing for easy changes to the application's look and feel and easy to implement co-branding opportunities.
• On-demand indexing of files as opposed to scheduled indexing, ensuring files are searchable immediately after uploading and simplifying the installation of the server.
• Secure versioning of document metadata, not just the document itself. This vastly increases the application's applicability in regulatory compliance scenarios.
• A new tree document metadata type has been added with the tree being represented graphically on the user interface.
• The User/Group schema has been extended to allow groups to be nested, thus providing for the mapping of users in more complex organisations.
• The move folder and move file functionality is now transactional and records a history of changes to the folder structure.
• Bulk import functionality allows administrators to import large numbers of files from external data sources quickly and easily.
• KnowledgeTree administrators may customise and extend the KnowledgeTree online help facilities using a web-based editor.
• A powerful plug-in architecture, providing KnowledgeTree developers with the ability to easily create new application functionality, hook into system events and expose the functionality on the user interface.
• A revamped permissions system which is easier to use and provides finer grained control over a user's actions than in KnowledgeTree 2.x.
• The extended functionality also lets KnowledgeTree community developers create their own permissions on the system, allowing their plug-ins to easily check permissions that they require to function.

KnowledgeTree Beta 1 is not yet stable and is not recommended for production use.

For more information on KnowledgeTree 3.0 Beta 1 please follow the link
below:
https://ktdms.com/products/KT3BetaReleaseInfo/

To download KnowledgeTree 3.0 Beta 1, please follow the link below:
https://ktdms.com/download

Kind regards,
The KnowledgeTree Team