Philip Arkcoll's blog

Mon Dieu! I’m still amazed by the vibrancy and ardor of the French open source community, as evidenced by their participation in the recent Open World Forum in Paris. Granted, there was a home field advantage at work, but I was still swept up in their excitement over the growing use of open source for both enterprise and SMB.

We've just released RC2 of the KnowledgeTree Add-in for Microsoft Office. This version fixes 3 issues found in the previous release candidate. For more details, see the release notes listed below -

• Download
• Installation instructions
• Release notes

Please direct any feedback to community |AT| knowledgetree |DOT| com. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

We're proud to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the new KnowledgeTree Add-in for Microsoft Office. This is a feature-complete preview of the final version and is just about 95% of the way to being production-ready. The only things missing are a few small tweaks here and there and the integration of the server component with the KnowledgeTree Stack.

Last Friday, I attended the annual PHP UK Conference, in London. I enjoyed a number of very interesting tech talks and was impressed with the quality of the event. There was a good mixed turn-out of corporate representatives and community members, from the UK and various other parts of the world. Everyone seemed in high spirits and was eager to chat and exchange ideas. I’ve included what I thought were some of the event highlights below:

If you don't fancy the "Smurf-blue" motif used in the new Office Add-in, why not try another theme? ExtJS, the JavaScript framework we used to implement the Add-in interface, is fully themable and there are a number of community developed themes available on the web. I've recently been trying out some of these themes and thought that I should share my notes on how to configure one.

To install a new theme, follow the steps below -

1. Download a theme from the ExtJS Extensions webpage;
(I'd personally recommend the Gray and Olive themes.)
2. Extract it into the Ext resources directory:
/knowledgeTree/ktoffice/thirdpartyjs/ext/resources
3. Point the Add-in at the new theme's stylesheet:
• Open the following file in a text editor:
/knowledgeTree/ktoffice/js/interface/office2007.js
• Add the following code snipet to the end of the file:
(Note that this reference points to the 'gray' theme - 'xtheme-gray.css'. For other themes, point to the relevant stylesheet) ---snip--- document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'+thirdpartyJsPath+'/ext/resources/css/xtheme-gray.css" />'); ---snip---
4. Open Internet Explorer and clear the cache (Delete Browsing History...).

Open Word, Excel or PowerPoint and the KnowledgeTree Office Add-in panel should appear with the new theme applied.