PointFire 2007 - MOSS in now Multilingual!
Hey,
It has been a long time coming but PointFire 2007 is finally released! PointFire 2007 is a multilingual user interface and content management system for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3.0. Sadly, the current release only supports English/French but support for Spanish, Arabic, German, Russian and Hebrew will be available very soon. Watch here a nice Flash video of how it works.
PointFire 2007 Features
- Supports 32bit Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- 64bit version being released soon.
- Currently enables English-French SharePoint sites.
- Additional language support to be released soon.
- Fast and easy to install
- Quick toggling of working language
- Simple interface for entering and linking content
- Straight forward multilingual WebPart page design
- Supports custom look & feel designs
- Adds content filtering links for Lists and WebParts
- Support for 3rd party Web Parts
- PF2K7 is a 100% server side multilingual user interface solution for MOSS 2007 and WSS v3.
- No heavy use of JavaScript on client machines.
- PF2K7 will not require alterations of existing site definitions
- PF2K7 makes no modifications to the SharePoint Database Architecture.
- All MUI functionality follows SP SDK rules and performs all tasks via the SharePoint Object Model.
- Users are no longer required to use ~’s nor any other delimiting characters to enter multilingual content.
- Multilingual Settings list added to control PointFire behaviour.
- Multilingual Translations list added to enable users to add, edit and override any interface translations.
- Ability to show/hide WebParts to/from specific languages.
- IceFire has also made the process of installing and updating PF2K7 very easy.
If you're down with that kind of solution - goto www.icefire.ca and download the developer copy.
Bye,
Adir Ron.