- Module 2: The content tree and navigation The second module of Editors 101. Learners open folders and items in the tree, read an item's page, its tabs and its sub items, and get around fast with the Content finder, the item menu and the keyboard. 2 hours 10…
- Module 2: The Intelligence tab The second module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Learners send a first request, decide about the drafts it wrote, and read the history and records of their conversations. 2 hours 10 minutes.
- Module 2: The template language The second module of the Developers course. Learners build a template playground and learn variables, conditions, loops, operators, wash, translations, the URL operators, include and the view functions. 5 hours.
- Module 2: Users and groups The second module of Site administration, users and user groups, creating and managing accounts, passwords and lockouts, unactivated users and Check user accounts, and changing the owner of content. Five lessons, 3…
- Module 2: Velocity The second module of Hosting and operations, what Velocity is, keeping it running, workers and pools, the response cache and HTTPS certificates. Four lessons, 3 hours.
- Agenda 2.1: The editors day A one-day workshop that takes new editors from signing in to publishing an article with an image, a link and a second version, built from the Editors 101 lessons, with a run of six blocks and a capstone. 6 hours of…
- Lesson 2.1: A first conversation in the Intelligence tab Learners start a request from Start writing or the Intelligence tab, write a clear brief, send it, follow the steps and lookups, and read the answer and the drafts it wrote. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Classes, datatypes and the content tree Learners map the content types of any source system to Exponential classes, attributes and datatypes, place items in the content tree with remote ids, and write the mapping table before any import code. 60 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Editors, written test A fourteen-question written test for the end of Editors 101, on creating and editing, versions, publishing, the trash, media, languages and search, with an answer key in which every answer cites a help page, and a…
- Lesson 2.1: Indexing at publish Learners follow what happens to the search index when content is published, edited, hidden, moved or trashed, and prove it with searches on their training installation. 25 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Layout types and their zones Learners name the twelve layout types and their zones, choose a type for a page shell or a content area, and explain why the type cannot be changed later. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Matching by URL path Learners explain how MatchOrder and the URI probe choose a siteaccess from the first part of the path, what DefaultAccess does when nothing matches, and how PathPrefix shortens the addresses of a site. 50 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Newsletter systems and the tree Learners find the newsletter root, explain RootFolderNodeId and the CJW Newsletter section, and create a newsletter system of their own. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Relations and embedding Learners explain the three ways one item points at another (relation fields, embeds and links in rich text), read the Relations tab in both directions, and use a relation list field. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Requirements for a training machine Check that a learner's laptop or a training server can run Exponential before the course, PHP version, the required PHP extensions, php.ini values, Composer and Git, with the commands that show what is missing. 40…
- Lesson 2.1: The tree and an item's page Learners open folders in the content tree, open an item and read its page, the path, the type badge, the buttons and the line with its version and numbers. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Users and user groups Learners explain how users and user groups are content in the Users tree, read a user's groups and roles, and create a user group for a team. 35 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Variables and output Learners set up a template playground, print variables and their attributes, declare, change and free variables with def, set and undef, build arrays and hashes, and escape output with wash. 50 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: What Velocity is and a first start Learners explain how Velocity serves a site with a parent process and persistent workers, choose the qbix engine, change settings with exp:velocity config and start and check the server. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.1: Your own design extension Learners create a theme extension with the design extension wizard (Setup > RAD), activate it, give one siteaccess the new design and see their own pagelayout draw the site. 60 minutes.
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