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Sunday March 28 2010
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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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Search New
A simple search block can be added to search your Exponential content. Log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface to edit the frontpage. Select a zone and under Block select Search and click "add block". Click "Se…
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Online Users New
An Online User Block can be added to displays the number of users that are online. This block is an Ajax based feature and the reloading of the online users is done using an Ajax call. Log in to the eZ Flow front-end edi…
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Google static & dynamic map New
Sometimes it can be useful to add a map to your frontpage 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 frontpage 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 an…
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Latest content New
This block allows you to display the latest published contents from a sub-tree based on the content type defined in the block. To add a latest content block log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface to edit the f…
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Embedded video custom tag New
It can be useful to embed a video in an article on your website and with eZ Flow this can be done with the video custom tag. But note that embedding a video custom tag requires the Online Editor extension. To embed a vid…
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Video New
This block is designed to ensure an easy an optimal video display. To give you an idea of how this looks on the frontpage, a video block is marked in red in the following screenshot. To add such a block, log in to the eZ…
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Main story New
One of the blocks that will most likely be used most is the manual Main story-block. It is marked in red on the following front page example: To add this block, log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface and edit…
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x items New
These blocks permit you to show a specific amount of content, ranging from 1 to 5. To give you an idea of how this looks on the front page, the following screenshot shows a 2 item block marked in red. To add such a block…
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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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Allowing users to change frontpage layout New
In some cases it is not recommended to allow editors to change the layout of a frontpage. For this reason you are able to tailor the editors rights and permissions and as such limit their layout editing abilities. This f…
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Defining block types Updated
A “block” is a section within a zone that contains a particular type of content. The content in blocks may be manually specified by a site editor (a “manual block”), may be automatically selected from a specific area in…
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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…
Friday March 26 2010
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Block types New
eZ Flow contains a wide range of block types, each with their own specific purpose. Click on the types listed here for more information: Main story x items Video Item list Latest content Banner Tag Cloud Poll Feed reader…
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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 reorganise the frontpage. Let's assume your frontpage looks like this: But you want…
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Push to Block New
To facilitate the editing of the frontpage layout, content can be pushed to an eZ Flow block in the frontpage directly from the content edit view. This can easily be done from the Administration Interface, as well as fro…
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Block Management New
To add blocks, you must first log in to the eZ Flow front-end editing interface. Next click on the "Edit" button as as marked in red in the next screenshot: You will be redirected to the Editing interface which looks lik…
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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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Installation New