Recent changes
Monday November 15 2010
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Go to another website New
In the url-field on the top left you can enter a url in order to access another website. Press "Go" on the bottom right to access the website. A keyboard appears. By pressing the "@123" button on the bottom left you will…
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Banner New
This block allows you to display your company banner on your front page, as shown in the following screenshot: To add a Banner block to your front page, log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface to edit the front…
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Feed reader New
A useful feature is provided to allow you to display RSS feeds from external sources without importing them in Exponential. Log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface to edit the front page. Select a zone and in t…
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Item list New
This block allows you to show any type of content on your front page in the form of a list of titles. The following screenshot shows an example for blog contents. To add an Item list to your front page, log in to the eZ…
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Poll New
This block allows you to run polls on your front page. The following screenshot shows an example of such a poll. To add a Poll block to your front page, log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface to edit the front…
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Tag Cloud New
Having a tag cloud on your front page can be useful for users who wish to find content regarding a specific keyword. The size of the keyword in the tag cloud depends on the amount of content that is tagged with that spec…
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Google map New
Sometimes it can be useful to add a map to your front page and the Google Map Block enables this. This feature will display a location on a map embedded in a static block or a list of content in a map in a dynamic block.…
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Keyword New
eZ Flow allows you to supply your front page with a dynamic Keyword block which will display a list of latest content related to a specified keyword. To add this block, log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface a…
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Multimedia carousel New
This block allows you to show a presentation of hand picked content. It is available for articles, images and video. The following screenshot shows an example of such a carousel. Use the arrows in the upper right corner…
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Adding content to block New
Once the blocks are defined you are ready to add items. This can be done in two ways: either click the "Add item" button, which displays a window for browsing the content tree, or use the search interface on the upper le…
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Drag and Drop New
A simple but useful feature is provided which allows editors to click on the header of a block and drag and drop the blocks in order to reorganize the front page. Let's assume your front page looks like this: But you wan…
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Push to Block New
To facilitate the editing of the front page layout, content can be pushed to an eZ Flow block in the front page directly from the content edit view. This can easily be done from the Administration Interface, as well as f…
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Related Objects New
The related objects view feature allows you to display the latest related content at the bottom of any published content. Any type of content can be listed as related content, varying from articles, to images and blog po…
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Timeline Preview New
Because the contents of an eZ Flow front page change over time, eZ Flow provides a time-line preview that enables you to view the visitor’s view of a front page at any point in time. To enable the time-line preview, clic…
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Zones New
Zones By default, eZ Flow has five layouts configured and ready for use. The diagram below shows the selection interface with the pre-configured layouts. The Global zone layout is used to make a layout that is re-used on…
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Allowing users to change frontpage layout New
In some cases it is not recommended to allow editors to change the layout of a front page. For this reason you are able to tailor the editors rights and permissions and as such limit their layout editing abilities. This…
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Fetch functions New
Four fetch functions are defined in the ezmedia module which can be used in templates: waiting valid archived valid_nodes waiting The fetch function has one parameter, block_id. This fetches the waiting items (items in t…
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iPod Touch and iPhone template New
eZ Flow includes templates tuned for mobile display. These templates are examples that show how you can display content on various devices. Displaying content on alternate devices is enabled via the Exponential siteacces…
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Video streaming configuration Updated
The video streaming functionality included in eZ Flow enables recording and streaming live video and playback of recorded videos. It works in conjunction with the Red5 streaming server. For installation information on Re…
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Defining page layouts Updated
By default eZ Flow has five layouts. The screenshot below shows the editor's view for selecting one of the five layouts in the Website Interface. Because layouts are defined via a configurable plug-in system, it is possi…