- Agenda 2.2: The administrators day A one-day workshop for new site administrators, install a site, users and roles, sections, caches, cronjobs, logs, system information and the upgrade check, each practised once on the learner's own installation. 6 hours…
- Lesson 2.2: An item's tabs and its sub items Learners use the tabs of an item's page (View, Details, Translations, Locations, Relations) and work with the Sub items list, sorting, paging and choosing columns. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Conditions and logic Learners write if, elseif and else blocks, compare values with eq, ne, gt, lt, ge and le, combine tests with and, or and not, and use cond, first_set, is_set and switch. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Creating a layout Learners create a layout with New layout, choosing the layout type, a name, an identifier and a description, and find their way around the editor that opens. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Creating and configuring a list Learners create a newsletter list in their system and fill in its configuration (siteaccess, output formats, skin, sender, test receiver, personalization) with safe training values. 60 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Creating and managing user accounts Learners create user accounts at example.invalid, place a user in a second group, move a user, and disable and enable an account. 40 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Delayed indexing and the indexcontent cronjob Learners switch on delayed indexing on their training installation, watch published content wait in the queue, and index it by running the global cronjob part, from the shell and from Setup > Cronjobs. 35 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Editors, practical task A 45-minute practical task for the end of Editors 101, build a small news section with a folder, two articles, an uploaded image and a translation, restore an earlier version and an item from the trash, scored with a…
- Lesson 2.2: Getting the code for a class Choose how learners get the Exponential code, a Git clone with Composer for developer courses, composer create-project for editor and administrator courses, and pin every learner to the same release. 40 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Keeping, sending and discarding drafts Learners review the drafts the assistant wrote, keep them with Save as drafts, edit one in the normal edit form, discard one, and send one with Send for approval, reading whether an approval applies. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Keeping Velocity running Learners stop, restart and gracefully reload Velocity, write a boot unit that runs exp:velocity, read the watchdog's behavior and find the server's logs and its configuration tree. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: Matching by host name Learners give the second site a host name of its own with the host map, test it without DNS by sending the Host header, and use HostMatchMethod so that a test host reaches the same siteaccess. 55 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: One item in several places: locations Learners give an item a second location, read the Locations tab, change the main location, hide one location and remove a location without removing the item. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 2.2: The pagelayout, your site's frame Learners read how a page is assembled, use the variables the pagelayout gets ($module_result, $site, $current_user), add a skip link and a breadcrumb to their own pagelayout, and check the file with eztemplatecheck. 60…
- Lesson 2.2: Users, roles and passwords Learners plan how user accounts, groups and roles move to Exponential, decide per source whether password hashes can carry over or need a reset, and handle personal data with a legal basis. 45 minutes.
- Agenda 2.3: The developers day A one-day workshop for PHP developers new to Exponential, a Git installation, the content model, a content class, templates and an override, the console, and a first extension with the RAD tools. 6 hours of sessions.
- Lesson 2.3: Checking before removing or hiding Learners read the list of objects that point at an item on the remove and hide confirmations, decide what to do about them, and know the site settings warn and block. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 2.3: Exponential Layouts, written test A twelve-question written test for the end of the Exponential Layouts course, on layouts, zones, blocks, layout types, mappings, shared layouts, drafts and publishing, with an answer key in which every answer cites a…
- Lesson 2.3: Getting around fast Learners open items with the Content finder, use the item menu in the tree, and move through the tree and menus with the keyboard. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 2.3: History, records and new conversations Learners use the conversation history, open the record of a turn, follow a run with Watch this run, continue after a failed step, and start a new conversation. 30 minutes.
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