User manual 6.x

This manual is for the people who work with the content of an Exponential 6 site every day: editors, site managers and administrators. It needs no technical knowledge. It describes Exponential 6.0.15 with the Admin 4 administration design, the design a new installation starts with.

Two places to work

You work with Exponential in two places:

• The administration, usually at the address of your site followed by /admin. Here you create and edit content, arrange it in the tree, manage users and set up the site. After signing in, the dashboard opens.
• The public site, which your visitors see. Editors who are signed in can change many things right there, with the website sidebar.

What you see depends on your role. A tab, a button or a menu entry that your role may not use is not shown, so your screen may have fewer tabs than the figures in this manual.

How this manual is organized

This page is the start of the manual. The other parts follow; each starts with the chapter named first.

1. Getting around the administration: The administration interface, with the Overview, The login page, The Dashboard tab, The Content structure tab, Navigating the node tree, Using bookmarks, Finding content and The help center.
2. Content: Daily tasks, the index of the task pages, with Adding content, Editing content, The edit form, Dealing with edit conflicts, Previewing content, Versions, Related objects, The Media library tab, Images and files and Translating content. Rich text is written with The online editor (TinyMCE 3 on a new installation, TinyMCE 8 where the site chooses it, Tiptap where the extension exp_oe_tiptap is installed), helped by The AI assistant in the editor and Autosave.
3. Structure: Copying, moving, hiding and revealing, publishing at multiple locations, sections, sub items and their order, swapping, removing and restoring from the trash.
4. Users and permissions: The User accounts tab, with Roles and policies: who may do what, User registration and registration with approval; also Managing users, Changing your user account, Creating a protected area, Two-step sign-in and Password expiry.
5. The website: The website interface and its User guide: the website sidebar, editing from the website, previewing, drafts, translations, notifications and wish lists.
6. Setup tasks for site owners: the Setup guide, with Configuring Exponential, Running the setup wizard, Caches for site owners, SEO title, description and the sitemap, Languages of the site, Help texts and Grouping attributes; the look of the site in the Customization guide; the online editor's installation and settings; and Scripts and style sheets (ezjscore).
7. Features of extensions: Building pages with Layouts, Sending a newsletter, Tagging content, Comments, Multi-upload, the Image editor and Import and export of word processor documents.
8. History: features of the eZ Publish years that are not part of Exponential 6, kept for readers of older sites, each marked at the top: the Comments module, Content staging, Multivariate testing, the Flash uploader of multi-upload, site style packages, and installing and upgrading the old website interface.

Help inside the administration

Every installation carries its own help center. The question mark button in the header of the administration opens the help menu: Help for this page explains the page you are on, the related topics lead further, and Open the Help center opens the help with its search. The help center also holds a user manual of its own, with one page per question.

On this site:

• User manual of the help center: every question, by tab and by task.
• A tour of the administration: the screen, step by step.
• Help center: search, and the help for each audience.
• Extensions: the manuals that the active extensions bring with them.

Before you start

• Your administrator gives you a user account and the address of the administration. Editors who only work with content may get the editor administration, without the setup, design and developer tools.
• Use a current web browser. The administration also works on a phone or tablet: on a narrow screen the tabs and the search move into a menu behind the button with three lines.
• Installing, configuring and upgrading are covered by the books for administrators and developers: Getting started and Upgrading to 6.0.

Further reading

• The help center: the help that every installation carries, with its search and its own user manual.
• Technical manual 6.x: installing, configuring, upgrading and developing with Exponential 6.