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Lesson 6.4: Forms and actions in a view Learners add a form to their view, map its button to an action with single_post_actions, read the posted value with the module's action parameters, validate it, redirect after the post, and see the form token protect… DevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 6.4: Going back, hiding and the trash Learners restore an earlier text with Make a new draft, hide and unhide an item, remove an item and get it back from the trash. 60 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Lesson 6.4: Reinstalling, resetting and regenerating settings Learners choose between DatabaseAction remove, ignore and skip, back up before a reinstall, reset a training site with the same kickstart.ini, regenerate the settings while keeping the data, and recover from a failed… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 6.4: Running notifications Learners read the Notification status page, preview a run without sending mail, rehearse a run into files with exp:notification:run, and clean up old events with a dry run first. 40 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Lesson 6.5: After the course Keep learners going after the last day, a follow-up message with sources, the community channels, the next course, the way from user to contributor, and the trainer's own clean-up and improvements. 30 minutes. Trainers Training
Lesson 6.5: Capstone, a migration project A two-day capstone for migration teams, migrate an invented organization's sample site into a training installation, from inventory and mapping through two timed rehearsals with counts, redirects tested automatically, a… AdministratorsDevelopersProject managersTrainers Training
Lesson 6.5: Capstone, a multisite from scratch Learners build a two-brand multisite on a fresh installation on their own, from exp:install to host matching, a language redirect, a site extension, logs per site and a content package, and the trainer checks it against… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 6.5: E-mail preferences and the mail gate Learners read the E-mail preferences status page, fill in the sender details on a training site, check what the mail gate would decide for test addresses without sending, and use the suppression list and consent log. 35… AdministratorsTrainers Training
Lesson 6.6: Capstone, a multisite launch with a newsletter A one-and-a-half-day capstone for administrators, add a second site for an invented organization to a training installation with its own siteaccess and host name, keep search current for both, launch a newsletter list… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 6.7: Reviewing and moderating results Keep scores consistent across trainers, groups and courses, calibrate with sample work, moderate borderline results with a second scorer, handle appeals by the cited page, keep only the records needed, and improve the… Trainers Training
The community for students and newcomers How students and other newcomers learn Exponential with the community - a free test installation on SQLite, learning resources, safe first contributions that build a public portfolio, the Student partner level, and how… End usersTrainersCommunity Community
Building an in-house training team How a public body trains its own Exponential trainers with the Train the trainer course, builds and keeps a training lab, adapts the free course material and keeps it current, so training continues after the supplier's… Project managersTrainersGovernments Public sector
Local groups and community events The landing page of the local groups part of the community section - what the sources say about events (none are documented), how community members can start their own local or online group, run a contribution day, and… AdvocatesTrainersCommunity Community
Module 7: Administration The last module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Administrators read providers and models, switch the assistant on with keys, limits and budgets, produce EI: Summary; everyone ends with a capstone editorial task… EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 7: Extensions The seventh module of the Developers course. Learners map the anatomy of an extension, give theirs metadata and a license, regenerate autoloads and activate extensions, declare dependencies for the loading order, and… DevelopersTrainers Training
Module 7: Finding content The seventh module of Editors 101. Learners find content with the quick search, its scope and the advanced search, and edit search results together. 1 hour. EditorsTrainers Training
Module 7: From other systems The module on sites from other systems - WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and static HTML - applying the planning, mapping and tool methods of the course to real sources. Three lessons, 2 hours 45 minutes. AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Module 7: Logs and the audit trail The seventh module of Site administration, the log files, the log viewer, finding an error by its reference, the audit trail and investigations with it. Five lessons, 3 hours 15 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 7: Mapping rules The seventh module of the Exponential Layouts course. Learners read layout mappings, create a mapping for their own test page, and troubleshoot why a page shows the wrong layout. 2 hours 40 minutes. EditorsWebsite creatorsTrainers Training
Module 7: Packaging a theme The seventh module of Theme design. Learners complete their theme's metadata, activate and order it safely, export it as an .ezpkg, and put it under Git with a composer.json. 3 hours 10 minutes. DevelopersDesignersTrainers Training

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