Celebrating IT Innovation
July 23rd, 2007 Comment on this articleby Regina Carns, Manager of User Education
We’re constantly hearing about the different ways clients are using their Laserfiche systems and integrating Laserfiche with third-party applications. We also hear that IT staff at most organizations are happy to share their work with other Laserfiche users. We designed the Code Library as a central location where IT staff and other developers can post their code and answer questions about it.
The Laserfiche Code Library provides resources for anyone interested in working with Laserfiche integration tools, from simple scripts to complex customizations. As a Laserfiche developer, you can submit code to the Library for posting–allowing you to help out other developers and users and receive recognition for your innovative use of Laserfiche.
Alongside resources such as the Toolkit Forum, the Code Library acts as a repository for the collected knowledge of the Laserfiche developer community. Reading Code Library articles can give you a look at the thought processes and coding styles of Laserfiche developers who have contributed samples and utilities.
Some articles on the Code Library, such as “Sending Search Results as E-mail Messages”, are essentially stand-alone utilities, which could be scheduled to run independently. Other Code Library items are intended for educational purposes, demonstrations of specific concepts such as viewing an image, applying annotations or exporting a document. The code in these projects provides an excellent example for beginning Toolkit programmers. How-to articles in the Library cover particular elements of setting up a customization, such as logging in to the Laserfiche server or setting up Windows® and Laserfiche to take advantage of your Toolkit apps.
To celebrate the continued growth of the Code Library, and to salute the innovative work IT staff have done, we’re pleased to announce a special program to award a prize for the best code submission. Give us your favorite Toolkit code, an explanation of what it does and instructions on how to use it. The community member who sends in the best submission will win his or her choice of either an Apple® iPhone™ or a Nintendo® Wii™ bundle, with additional prizes awarded to runners-up. The deadline for entries will be later this year. We’ll post more details about this program on the Support Site.
