- User groups and sections for extranets How to structure an extranet in Exponential so each contractor or partner sees only its own content: one user group and one section (or subtree) per party, a role assigned with a limitation, and tests from each side.
- Variables and def Creating, changing and removing template variables with def, set and undef; scopes (current, root, global) for passing values up; default for optional parameters; and the naming habits that avoid clashes between…
- Versions and content history For editors and records staff - how Exponential keeps every save of an object as a version (draft, published, archived, pending, rejected), how to see who changed what and when, compare versions, bring back an earlier…
- Volunteer form field worksheet A worksheet to design a volunteer sign-up form before anyone builds it - each field with its purpose, datatype, whether it is required, who reads it and how long it is kept - plus the receiver, thank-you page, spam…
- Volunteers and sign-up forms How a non-profit collects volunteer sign-ups, event registrations and contact requests with Exponential's information collector - designing the form, mail to the coordinator, files with enhancedezbinaryfile, spam…
- What accessibility law asks of public bodies An overview, for public bodies in the EU and the United States, of the accessibility rules that usually apply to a website and its editing tool, and how each one meets what Exponential documents.
- What you can build with Exponential The kinds of websites Exponential is built for, the parts that ship with it for each kind, and the questions that tell you whether a site idea fits before you start.
- Who Exponential is for: personas and industries The organizations, industries and people Exponential serves according to its own sources, as personas with their needs, the product of the family that fits each, qualification questions, and the signals that another…
- Who runs the partner program: 7x, the Foundation and the project Which organization runs the Exponential Partner Program today, what the sources say about the roles of 7x and the Exponential Foundation, and what is still to be defined by the Foundation.
- With RAD: a datatype The Datatype wizard writes a rating datatype: form, storage and abilities, the files, what you still write, and two corrections to make by hand, from the wizard's real output.
- Write a security requirement for a tender Step by step, write security requirements for a tender for an Exponential site - baseline hardening, the defaults to change, patching, audit, testing and reporting - that a bidder can answer and you can verify.
- Applying the 6.0.15 database update A step-by-step procedure for the database part of an upgrade from any 6.0.x release to 6.0.15 - backup, maintenance mode, the dbupdate-6.0.0-6.0.15.sql file per engine, what it adds, the audit tables with…
- Blog reading path The pages a blog owner reads in the first week, month and quarter on Exponential, in order: posting, scheduling, feeds, tags, comments and upkeep.
- Brand and naming for media The naming and brand rules that matter in published coverage - the product, its family, 7x, the Exponential Foundation, the former name only as history, code identifiers, other companies, the two published taglines and…
- Designing for performance budgets The design decisions that decide how fast an Exponential theme is - agreeing a budget before drawing, the first screen, fonts, images, third-party embeds, page weight per template, and how a designer checks a page…
- Layouts for CMS developers For CMS developers, Exponential Layouts from the developer's side. It covers layouts, zones, blocks and rules, how a page resolves its layout, how layouts meet templates in the pagelayout, layout types, block…
- Making a page with Layouts Arrange a page with Exponential Layouts in plain steps - open a layout, add a block by dragging it into a zone, fill in its content, move or delete it, and publish - for sites that use Layouts, with what to leave to a…
- Objection: "Is it still alive?" How to answer "Isn't Exponential dead?" or "Isn't that the discontinued product?" with checkable evidence - releases, commits, CI, the history, the organizations behind it - plus reply templates and what not to say.
- Permissions for AI features The expai policies (write, vector, log, settings, model_use, model_manage, lane_fast, chain, web, translation_sync, summary, services) and their limitations, how they combine with the editor's own content permissions…
- PHP versions in the ecosystem Which PHP versions the Exponential ecosystem supports - PHP 8.0 to 8.5 for Exponential 6 and Velocity, what the CI tests, PHP 7 only in old releases, the aim for 8.6 and later, and the platform line's own PHP…
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