- Coming from Drupal For Drupal developers, how content types and fields, nodes, taxonomy, Views, blocks, modules and hooks, Twig themes, configuration management and Drush map to Exponential. It also covers the false friends to watch for…
- Community reading path The order in which to read the community section of the Exponential help - a core path of ten pages for every community member, and short extra paths for contributors, helpers, organizers and companies.
- Contracts and SLAs The owner's guide to contracts and service level agreements with a host or partner for an Exponential site - what to cover, which promises depend on whom, how each is measured, the open source points, and how the…
- Ecosystem reading path The order in which to read the ecosystem section of the Exponential help - a core path of ten pages for everyone, and extra paths for developers, hosts, decision makers and writers.
- From mockup to theme The workflow from a design in a design tool to a working Exponential theme - seven stages, who does what in each, what each stage hands to the next, and where the technical steps are documented.
- Learning path: editor A step-by-step learning path for future editors, built from existing help pages - signing in, the content tree, creating and editing, media, publishing and versions, search, translations and pages with Exponential…
- Onboarding new staff How to bring a new editor or team member onto an Exponential site in the first week - the account, the role, two-step sign-in, a first guided task with the built-in help, and the house rules - and who on the team does…
- PHP extensions per engine Which PHP extension each database needs (sqlite3, pgsql, mongodb with its Composer library, mysqli, oci8), where it comes from on the common Linux families, how the setup wizard checks it, and how to confirm that the…
- Reading paths through the book Reading orders through the book for each role - curious user, builder, PHP developer, designer, application creator, upgrader, maintainer - with what you can do after each stage.
- Reading the metapackage A walk through the composer.json of se7enxweb/exponential-platform-dxp and of the skeleton - what each requirement is for, the conflicts, the license field, the Flex recipe endpoints and minimum stability - so you know…
- The media field and the file field The two field types that hold audio and video in Exponential - the media datatype (ezmedia) with its player types and options, and the file datatype (ezbinaryfile) with its download counter - how each is stored…
- The PHP developer's reading path Every page of the PHP developers section in a recommended reading order, in six stages from orientation to contributing, with the time each stage takes and what you can do after it.
- The setup wizard Every step of Setup > Static publishing > New target - the site, the host, signing in, the repository, links and base path with a live example, your own domain, what the build holds, when it is published - then Review…
- Upgrade day checklist A checklist for the site owner and the editorial team for the days before, the day of and the day after an upgrade of an Exponential site - announcements, the backup question, the pages to test, and what to write down.
- What exists today An honest inventory of the AI and agent features of Exponential 6 - Exponential Intelligence (expai), the REST API, expservices, ezjscore, the audit trail and the help on the command line - with where each one comes…
- What Exponential is, in plain words A description of Exponential for people who are not technical - what it does, what it does not do, who makes it, what it costs and what you need around it - without a single technical term that is not explained.
- What you own What a customer of Exponential owns and controls: the software's license, your content and data, the code written for you, the accounts, the domain and the backups, and the questions to settle with your partner and host…
- Adding a language What a site owner plans and decides before adding a content language to an Exponential site - adding a language translates nothing and shows nothing by itself, what the siteaccess needs, translators and approvers, which…
- Adopters FAQ Short answers to the questions organizations ask when adopting Exponential - cost, license, how long it takes, hosting, databases, migration, support, security, skills, and whether the project will last.
- Backups What a complete backup of an Exponential site is, the decisions only the owner can make (how much loss is acceptable, how fast a restore must be, where copies are kept), what to ask your host, and how to avoid a restore…
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