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Saturday May 11 2024
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The Dashboard tab Updated
The Dashboard is your own start page in the administration and the first page after signing in. It shows what is waiting for you, what happened on the site lately, and leads to your drafts, pending items, bookmarks and s…
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Signing in and out Updated
The administration is a part of the installation of its own, a siteaccess , with its own address. Whoever opens it is asked to sign in first. This page explains signing in and out, what to do when it does not work, and a…
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The Media tab: the media library Updated
The Media tab opens the media library: the part of the content tree kept for images, documents, videos, banners and other files that pages use. This page explains what it is for and how it differs from the Content struct…
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The edit form Updated
The edit form is where the content of an item is written and changed, in every tab of the administration: Content structure , Media and Users . It opens when you press Edit on an item's page, choose Edit in in an item's…
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Users and permissions Updated
This part of the manual is about the people who use the site: their accounts, the groups they belong to, and what each of them may do. In the administration it all starts at the Users tab. Users and groups are items User…
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Setting up the online editor Updated
This page is for administrators. The online editor edits the rich text fields of the edit form (fields of the type XML block ). It is the extension ezoe , which ships inside the Exponential kernel and is active on every…
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Requirements Updated
This topic has moved. The requirements of the online editor now live on Setting up the online editor , which describes them for Exponential 6. In short: the online editor ships with Exponential and needs ezjscore and ezf…
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Online editor settings Updated
This page is for administrators. It explains which files shape the online editor and what is usually changed in them. Every setting is listed on the two reference pages, ezoe.ini and ezoe_attributes.ini . Where the setti…
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Writing rich text Updated
This page explains what rich text is, how the online editors store it, and how to write it without an editor. The other pages of this part show the editors at work, step by step. Rich text is structure, not layout A rich…
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Changing the look of the site Updated
The look of an Exponential site comes from its design : templates, style sheets, images and scripts, kept in a design extension. On top of the design, site owners can change a good deal without a developer: the content o…
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Setting up the website Updated
This part is for site owners and administrators: the people who decide what the site offers, how it looks and in which languages, and who keep it fast. Most of the work is done in the administration's Setup and Design ta…
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Editing from the website Updated
This chapter collects the tasks you can do on the public site itself, signed in with your account: with the website sidebar for the pages, and with your profile page for your own drafts, notifications, orders and wish li…
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Discussion: No users... Updated
Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
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Discussion: User activation process Updated
Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
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Access methods Updated
When a request arrives, Exponential has to decide which siteaccess answers it. It looks at the request's path, host name or port, in an order you choose, and takes the first siteaccess that matches. The rules are in site…
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Extension siteaccess settings Updated
An extension can carry settings for a single siteaccess. This keeps everything a site needs (its design, its override rules, its siteaccess settings) inside one extension that you can install, copy or put under version c…
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Discussion: Override means override? Updated
Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
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Site management Updated
One Exponential installation can run several sites, and several faces of one site, with the siteaccess system. A siteaccess is a named set of settings that is applied on top of the defaults when a request matches it. It…
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Storage Updated
A running site keeps its information in three places: the database, the var/ directory and the settings files. Knowing which is which tells you what to back up, what you may clear and what an update replaces. What Where…
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Class attributes Updated
A class attribute is one field of a content class : the Title of an article, the Image of a gallery item, the e-mail address of a user. Each attribute has a datatype, which decides what it can hold, and a set of properti…