Download Zipped List Items Feature Released!

Hay all, I’ve released today this little but still usefull feature 🙂

 

This Custom UI Actions for Sharepoint extends the lists action meny to allow users to zip document library items and download all of them either with or without version

Features

• Download all document library items
• Versions: if you are caring about document versions you can download them as well
• Ability to download only the selected view items instead of all list items

The new menu added to the sharepoint document library actions menu

After clicking over the menu item

the compressed file downloaded

the compressed file downloaded with the files versions

Known Issues

• Arabic file names: arabic file names are not downloaded correctly
• The tool uses the system temporary directory to export the list items and compress it, so you need to watch this folder and manage a clean up mechanism

Thank you

• The Compression library i’ve used to compress the list items is SharpZipLib
• also used a code sample posted on Peter Bromberg blog to compress the entire folder, Thank you Peter 🙂 the post and code sample where great.

You can download it from http://www.codeplex.com/MZakiCustomActions/

 

and if you have any feedback kindly add it as a comment on this post

 

Microsoft Appears in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology

In Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology Microsoft appeared in the Leaders Quadrant; This report is all about

 

"This Magic Quadrant assesses vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a range of technologies. Their capabilities include search; federated search, content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop search to address user-controlled repositories in order to locate and "invoke" documents, data, e-mail and intelligence.

We consider all enterprise search vendors to be information access technology vendors. However, those that only offer search capabilities (frequently called "keyword search") are neither Visionaries nor candidates for the Leaders quadrant, although they are part of the market. Finding information, and acting on it intelligently, demands increasingly sophisticated and innovative strategies and technologies."

Read the full article here