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Plan the site's own documentation

Write down the layouts, mappings, menus and templates of the site in the same structure as these pages, so the next person can change them.

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Address: https://doc.exponential.earth/exphelp/viewer/help/build-two-ways/examples/plan/document-the-site.md

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Plan the site's own documentation

A new team member finds where the header menu is in minutes.

Life cycle: Plan, example 35 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents

  1. In the Layouts editor
  2. In the site guide
  3. Which to choose
  4. Check

In the Layouts editor

  1. List the shared layouts and what links to them; exp:layouts list output can be pasted in.

In the site guide

  1. Keep a short guide with the design extension: which menu.ini lists exist, which templates are overridden, which block and view types were added.

Which to choose

Link to these pages for the general parts, write only what is specific.

Check

  • Someone outside the project can add a header menu item with the guide alone.

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