- Keeping a site current over a multi-year contract A yearly rhythm for a public body to keep an Exponential site current through a contract of several years - updates, platform, access, content checks, documentation and training - with the admin pages and commands that…
- Keeping services current How to keep service pages correct over time in Exponential - an owner per page, a required review date, a template list of overdue services, versions for what changed, and a monthly routine.
- Library site checklist One checklist for a library, archive or catalog site on Exponential - scope and planning, the record model, subject headings, search, files and licenses, exports and feeds, accessibility, launch, and the monthly routine…
- Limit a translator to one language Task for administrators: create a role whose content policies are limited by Language, assign it to a translators' group, and test it with a test account.
- Managed service reseller How to sell Exponential sites as a managed service - you run, update, back up and watch the site for a monthly fee - with the tasks the service covers, the tools Exponential provides for each, a responsibility matrix to…
- Multilingual approvals How to approve content in several official languages - one approval for all languages, or approvers per language with the Affected languages field and Language-limited roles - and how translators and approvers fit the…
- Multilingual sites: start here For owners of sites in several languages on Exponential: translations of every item, keeping them current when the source changes, language addresses, right-to-left languages, translators' roles and the help Exponential…
- Multisite on one installation How one Exponential installation serves several sites through siteaccesses, matched by URL, host name or port; what that means for a host's isolation, logs, caches, billing and backups; and when separate installations…
- Newsletter checklist One checklist for a newsletter on Exponential with cjw_newsletter - decisions, setup, consent, rehearsal, the first real send, every send after it, and the monthly routine - each item linked to the page that explains it.
- Notifications instead of a newsletter When the kernel's notifications serve better than a newsletter: signed-in users follow a page or section and get an e-mail, at once or as a digest, when content changes; how it works, the cronjob, and its limits for…
- Nullable parameters and type declarations Fix the most common PHP 8.4 deprecation, implicitly nullable parameters, and add type declarations to old code safely, with examples from expsite_api, expquery_translator and ezfind.
- OpenDocument import and export How the ezodf extension imports OpenDocument Writer files as Exponential content and exports content back to Writer - what it needs (LibreOffice or OpenOffice as a converter), its settings, the views, and its documented…
- Operations calendar A year of recurring work for an Exponential store, by frequency and by role - what the daily, weekly and monthly routines leave out (quarterly, yearly, before peaks, after updates), with the screen, setting or page for…
- Orders day to day Handling orders in a running Exponential store - the path of one order, the screens the team uses, who may change what, customer questions, archiving, and the mistakes that cause most support calls.
- Part 8: Reference of built-in features for extension authors Part 8 of the book: a reference of the kernel classes, template features, settings, commands and directories extension authors use most, with signatures taken from the source and links to the full documentation.
- Partner plans and prices The eight Exponential Partner plans with their monthly prices, support tickets, response times, guidance meetings, revenue requirements, discounts and lead priority, the Kick-Off Package, the lead referral commission…
- Platform as a service What a platform-as-a-service offering must provide for Exponential (tier 3 in the sources), why a read-only or ephemeral file system needs var/ on persistent storage and a database server, how VarDir and the cache and…
- PostgreSQL for hosts PostgreSQL, the recommended database server for Exponential, from a host's point of view: versions, the database owner rule, the pgcrypto extension, settings, installing with exp:install, sequences, backups and the…
- Prepare a demo for the evaluation panel Step by step, prepare a scripted demonstration of Exponential for an evaluation panel - the same script for every bidder, built from the requirements and the existing demo scripts, with test data, timing and scoring.
- Pricing a custom theme project Turn a client's request for a custom theme into a quote - scope, phases, assumptions, what is excluded, how changes are handled - without guessing figures.
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