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Apr 07 2011

Sharepoint 2007 to foswiki migration project part 1

Tag: datawiki,enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,sharepoint,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 3:24 pm

I’ve spent the last few days working on getting data out of Sharepoint Wiki, and its shocking. If you read the webservices API and believe it, things would be simple. Sadly, its got some pretty major bugs, and some pretty woeful architecture too.

The worst finding is that although Sharepoint lists have a webservice API to get versioned data, its broken – all versions of the MetaInfo return the text of the last revision. So I had to resort to brute force html GET’s and parsing the html to try to get the historical info.

Still, data gathered and saved – next week I’ll start trying to extract the valuable user written text from the masses of shoddy html (like in MS Word to html, every line is surrounded by the same 100 character css styles, setting font to Verdana etc.

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Aug 11 2010

Edit foswiki files in Microsoft Office

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 1:10 pm

Kontextwork WebDAV

Using the WebDAV for foswiki Extension, you can seamlessly edit Microsoft Office files in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and then save directly back into the Wiki.

Using WebDAV, users can get direct access to Wiki topics and attachments, via the WebDAV URL – making it possible to attach documents by drag and dropping them directly in Windows Explorer.

Some technical details

WebDAV for foswiki requires advanced libraries on the server – including Apache 2 mod_perl support. For full integration mode, some trust settings need to be changed in Internet Explorer, or an extension installed to Firefox.

Required Perl modules and extensions

APR::Table
APR::UUID
Apache2::Access
Apache2::Const
Apache2::Module
Apache2::RequestIO
Apache2::RequestRec
Data::Dumper
Encode
File::Find::Rule::Filesys::Virtual
File::Spec
POSIX
URI
URI::Escape
XML::LibXML => than 1.64 (declaredPrefix function is needed)
XML::Simple
Filesys::Virtual
POSIX
File::Path
JSON

Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin

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Apr 17 2010

New Dynamic jquery mb.Menus for foswiki

Tag: foswiki,javascript,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 3:44 pm

I’ve just started work adding Matteo Bicocchi’s rather stunning mb.Components – starting with mb.Menu. Along the way, adding foswiki Macro’s to make it simpler for us to use, I’ve also made some changes to the code (which hopefully I can get integrated into an mb.Menu release) that I have attached to the live demo.

Here’s the all important Screenie:

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Dec 09 2009

foswiki for windows updated to version 1.0.8

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 10:02 pm

I built and uploaded foswiki 1.0.8 installer for windows last night – hope you like it, cos i’ll be on holidays for a few days

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been working on an SAP connector for foswiki – I can display most SAP Tables, and call most SAP functions – all via ‘RFC’ – right now we’re working towards a proactive system healthcheck report, but it pretty much will allow us to build any SAP process right into foswiki. Cool huh.

and for fun I’ve been working on making a replacement DocumentGraphics icon set based on FamFamFamContrib for foswiki – the 10 year old hand drawn one really is dated.

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Sep 22 2009

Foswiki 1.0.7 on a USB Stick

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 2:00 pm

I’ve updated the USB Foswiki to include foswiki 1.0.7, and updated the systray controller to be a little more slick

I’m still looking for feedback from users – Its a nice fast way to try out foswiki without needing to install anything – just unzip the archive into the root of a disk, and click start_foswiki.bat (on Windows XP the autorun should start that automatically for you)

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Sep 21 2009

Foswiki 1.0.7 released.

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 5:54 pm

Continuing our commitment to bug fixing and solving difficult security issues, we’re proud to announce that the Foswiki project has released 1.0.7.

This release contains:

an upgraded Wysiwyg editor : TinyMCE 3.2.2
table plugin sorting improvements
CSRF fixes and streamlineing
and a series of Windows related improvements

see http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome for more details, and to download the update.

I’m updating the Foswiki On a USB Stick at the moment, and will then work on Windows and Debian.

Ohloh shows a very comforting graph for me – over the year, we’ve been maintaining our momentum, and regularly have over 10 different contributors _every_ month.

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