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Businesses glossary Plain-language explanations of the words used in the Businesses section, from siteaccess and section to cache, Velocity, REST API, VAT type, country group, RTO and total cost of ownership, each with a link to where it… Project managersSales & marketingBusinesses Exponential for businesses
E-commerce glossary The words of the E-commerce section explained - from product class, price field and product collection to temporary order, trigger, payment object, callback, shop account handler, dynamic VAT and expservices - each with… BusinessesCustomersE-commerce E-commerce
Free documentation: use it to help yourself and others This help is free documentation under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later. What that lets you do (read, copy, share, translate, adapt, improve) and the few conditions that keep it free for everyone. EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersEnd users Help and support
Mobile app developers glossary The words used in the Mobile app developers section explained for app developers - from node, object, class and remote id to response group, OutputFormat, provider, ezpl, OAuth client, expk and expt tokens, envelope… DevelopersApplication creatorsMobile App Developers Mobile apps
Non-profits glossary The words a non-profit meets when it runs its website on Exponential, explained in plain language - from administration interface, audit trail and CAPTCHA to information collector, object state, role, section… EditorsBusinessesGovernmentsNon-profits Non-profit organizations
Templates for local businesses Fill-in templates for local business websites on Exponential - a website brief to send to partners, an opening hours content template with notice texts, and the related worksheets and agreement templates elsewhere in… BusinessesCustomersLocal businesses Local business
Testing in a sandbox Test a site package where nothing can be lost - a separate checkout with its own SQLite database - in four rounds - check the archives, a dry run, a full install, a look at the result - and clean up afterwards. DevelopersPartnersHosting companies Installation and upgrades
Website brief for a local business A fill-in brief for a local business website on Exponential - the business, goals, pages, hours and locations, forms, shop, languages, outside services, who edits, hosting and support, budget and dates - ready to send… BusinessesCustomersLocal businesses Local business
Opening hours content template Ready-to-fill texts for opening hours on a local business site - regular hours as a text block or matrix rows, split hours, appointment-only times, holiday and closure notices, seasonal hours and emergency notes… EditorsBusinessesCustomersLocal businesses Local business
What changes for editors when the site is static For editors whose public site is published as a static copy - you edit as before, but a change goes online when the site is published, not when you press Publish on the content; what stale means, how to publish one… Editors Editing content
7x, the first sponsor 7x is the first sponsor of the Exponential Project and of the Exponential Foundation - what the sources say about 7x's funding of the project with time and resources, its contributions, and why other sponsors are needed… Sponsors Sponsorship
Add alternative text to images For editors - write and enter alternative text for images in Exponential, in the image field, the upload page and the online editor's dialogs, decide when an image needs none, and find images that still lack it. EditorsGovernments Public sector
Adding and removing extensions in a bundle How a bundle adds an extension (Composer, autoloads, caches, ActiveExtensions or the site package), how it leaves a required one out, the loading order, extension exports and their secret check, and a checklist for… DevelopersBundlers Bundles and distributions
A disaster recovery plan For public bodies that must document how a website comes back after a disaster: loss of a server, a data center, the database or the data itself. The scenarios, the parts of a plan, an outline you can copy, and the… AdministratorsProject managersHosting companiesGovernments Public sector
Always available content What the "always available" flag of an object does in a multilingual Exponential site, which items should carry it (logos, media folders, users, documents in one language), how to set it per object and per class, and… EditorsAdministratorsGovernments Public sector
App backend reliability How a business keeps the Exponential installation behind its app, portal or partner integration available - what can make the API unavailable, health checks, maintenance windows that answer 503, rate limits, caching… AdministratorsApplication creatorsBusinesses Exponential for businesses
Approval before publishing How to make every transparency publication wait for a second person's approval in Exponential: the Approve workflow event, the trigger, the cronjob, and how approvers and authors see pending items. EditorsAdministratorsGovernments Public sector
Architecture overview The layers of an Exponential installation and what each is responsible for - servers, the kernel entry points, the domain classes, the libraries, the presentation layer, extensions, settings and var/ - with the… DevelopersSoftware Engineers Software engineering
Arithmetic operators The 18 operators of eZTemplateArithmeticOperator (sum, sub, mul, div, mod, inc, dec, min, max, abs, ceil, floor, round, int, float, count, roman, rand) with their parameters, input, return value and examples rendered on… DevelopersDesignersApplication creators Development
Assign a role with a section limitation Step by step - give a user group an existing role only for the content of one section (for example an internal or restricted section), with Assign with limitation, and check the result. AdministratorsGovernments Public sector

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