Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Sales process for resellers Updated Markdown page
A sales process for reselling Exponential-based offers - from lead to signed contract in seven stages - with what to do and which help page to use at each stage, the documents to prepare, when to involve 7x, and a…
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Setting up accounts for editors and administrators Updated Markdown page
An administrator creates an editor's account in the Editors group, checks it by signing in as the new user, and hands the sign-in over so that the editor sets a password only they know; the same steps for further…
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Site packages: start here Updated Markdown page
The start of the site packages help. What a site installer package is, the package server that publishes them, what sevenx_multisite and cjw_multisite install, the documentation a package must carry, how to make and…
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Packages in the administration Updated Markdown page
The administration pages that handle packages on an installed site - the package list and a package's page, import, install and uninstall, the package wizard, and ezupdate's package servers and fetch - with the policies…
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Fetching packages with ezupdate Updated Markdown page
List the packages a package server offers on /update/packages/<server>, compare them with the local copies, fetch one (or fetch it again) into the local package repository from the page or with the fetch command, and…
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Importing a package Updated Markdown page
Upload an .ezpkg archive on Setup > Packages > Import new package - what is checked before anything is written, which repository the package lands in, what happens next, the upload limits and their settings, and what…
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Installing and uninstalling Updated Markdown page
Install a package's items from the administration - the install page, what the install meets here by remote ID, install as drafts, install in the background, conflicts, batching - and uninstall it again, with what each…
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Package servers in ezupdate Updated Markdown page
The Exponential package servers section of ezupdate's Package servers page (/update/servers) - the built-in server from package.ini, adding and removing your own, the Servers[] setting it writes, the server-add and…
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Permissions for packages Updated Markdown page
Every policy that opens a package page or button - the package module's functions and their Type, CreatorType and Role limitations, ezupdate's update/ezupdate and update/manage, package/export_extension - with role…
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The package list and package page Updated Markdown page
Read Setup > Packages - the repositories and their counts, the search and filters, the cards, installer sources and the removal confirmation - and a package's own page with its details, contents, Compare, Validate and…
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The package wizard Updated Markdown page
The redesigned package creation wizard at Setup > Packages > Create new package - the four wizards, the steps and their buttons, the pickers, the review, where the package is written, the entry from the content tree…
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Site package basics Updated Markdown page
The overview of the basics part of the site packages help. What a site installer package is, the .ezpkg file and package.xml, package types, install items, dependencies, install scripts, and how the setup wizard, the…
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Classic and JSON packages Updated Markdown page
The two storage formats of an Exponential package - classic package.xml and JSON package.json - what differs, how the kernel tells them apart, what this means for site packages and the package server, and how to convert…
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Dependencies and install order Updated Markdown page
How a site package declares the packages it needs (require type ezpackage with min-version), how the setup wizard and the kickstarter fetch them, how min-version is compared, and the exact order in which packages are…
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How the kickstarter and the console use packages Updated Markdown page
How the kickstarter (kickstart.ini [site_types] Site_package) and the console install (exp:install --package) choose, fetch and install a site package, how they differ from the web wizard, how dry runs check packages…
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How the setup wizard uses packages Updated Markdown page
What the setup wizard does with packages, step by step - Site types (index download, list, download and import with requirements, upload), Package language options, and Create sites (install scripts and installation of…
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Import versus install Updated Markdown page
The four things that can happen to a package - import, install, uninstall and remove - what each one changes, what install_type="import" means, how the installed state is recorded, and which command or page does which.
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Install items and handlers Updated Markdown page
What an install item in package.xml is, how the kernel finds the handler for it through package.ini HandlerAlias, what each shipped handler (ezcontentclass, ezcontentobject, ezextension, ezfile, ezsql, eziniaddon…
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Install scripts in a site package Updated Markdown page
How a site package carries PHP install scripts (settings/settings-file in package.xml, files in settings/), the eight functions the Create sites step calls and when, what each must return, the parameters they receive…
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Package types Updated Markdown page
The package types Exponential knows (site, sitestyle, contentclass, contentobject, extension), where the type is declared, what each one is for, which types the 6.0.15 index really uses, and what the type changes in the…