Recent changes
Wednesday May 30 2012
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Content Export Mapping New
Content export mapping We stated earlier that the recommendation service is a cloud-based service. It uses pre-calculated models that are based not only on the user´s activities but also on information about the content…
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Item type (for recommendation) selection New
Item type (for recommendation) selection The Item type (for recommendation ) is similar to a class ID in Exponential. It defines a number corresponding to a given type of content. If you attribute the number “2” as Item…
Tuesday May 29 2012
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'Rate'-event New
´Rate´-event The ‘rate’- and the ‘purchase’-event need additional parameters to work. ´Rate´ requires an integer rating value between 0 and 100. An exemplary function call looks like this: < {generate_rate_event($node, 4…
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'Consume'-event New
‘Consume’-event When you want to be notified about consumption of content (e.g. reading an article for more than 20 seconds, watching a video for more than 60 seconds) you need to generate consume events. To do this you…
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Create other common events ('owns', 'consume', 'blacklist') New
Create other common events (‘owns’, ‘consume’, ‘blacklist’) You can create ´click´, ´consume´ and other common events also manually by including the corresponding function call in selected view templates: Example : We co…
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Implement Tracking Updated
Enable ‘Click’-events After installing the ezrecommendation extension, the global pagelayout.tpl is overridden to track events automatically. If you have customized your global pagelayout.tpl, you can do these changes ma…
Friday May 25 2012
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General Links New
Links to General Documentation you may look at to understand how Exponential works. Exponential Documentation Exponential Forums Exponential Support (for Enterprise customers only) Exponential Solutions Exponential Train…
Wednesday May 16 2012
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General Index Time Plugin Mechanism Updated
General Index Time Plugin Mechanism Audience This feature requires deeper understanding of Exponential kernel (object API), experience with eZ Find and PHP programming skills. Goals and Use Cases In some specific situati…
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Customizing Facets and Drill Down Navigation New
Facets were introduced in eZ Find 2.0 to enable you to create browse-based search functionality. In other words, the search results can be further narrowed after the original search has been made. This is sometimes calle…
Tuesday May 15 2012
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Exponential 4.7 Etna Known Issues Updated
The following issues are specifically related to Exponential 4.7. eZ Network related issues If you are using the eZ Network extension and monitors are enabled, the database checker will return the following errors: DROP…
Monday May 14 2012
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Solr backend New
eZ Find 2.7 uses the Open Source enterprise search server Solr 3.3, which runs on the Lucene Java search library. While the default search function in Exponential stores the search index in the database, Solr uses its ow…
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Elevate components or "Sponsored Results" New
The “Elevation” feature allows you to ensure a given content object is returned as the first search result when searching for specific words. If, for example, you would like your company's banner (which is an image objec…
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Customizing result templates New
Customizing result templates for eZ Find is similar to customizing templates for the regular search in Exponential, with the exception that eZ Find also offers some additional options. The eZ Find fetch function will ret…
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Template fetch functions Updated
Dedicated template fetch functions were introduced in eZ Find 2.0: For example: fetch(ezfind, search, hash(<parameters>)) Returns eZ Find search results exposing the powerful features of the backend Solr. fetch(ezfind, m…
Thursday May 10 2012
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Cluster Configuration Settings Updated
The cluster settings are located in an override of your "settings/file.ini" file (most likely "settings/override/file.ini.append.php"or "settings/siteaccess/<SITE_ACCESS>/file.ini.append.php") When using the eZDB file ha…
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Cluster File Handlers Updated
The cluster file handler mechanism makes it possible to store, retrieve, rename, delete, etc. files using the database. The following file handlers are known to the system by default: eZFS (located in the "kernel/classes…
Wednesday May 09 2012
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Requirements New
Source Server: Exponential 4.7 or later ezjscore (if using ezwt) Target Server: Exponential 4.7 or later ezprestapiprovider extension (for rest controller classes) Requirements for working with the Website Interface (suc…
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Upgrading to eZ Find 2.7 Updated
Back-up Before starting the eZ Find upgrading process make sure that you have a working backup of the existing website state including database, extensions, INI settings, etc. During the upgrade process the existing eZ F…
Friday May 04 2012
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Backup and consistency checks Updated
Backup Before you do anything else, you should make sure that the current solution is properly backed up. In other words, you should create a copy of the entire Exponential directory and the database. The following examp…
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Reference Updated