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Tuesday February 07 2017
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Q: How can I get involved in the Exponential community? Updated
A: Join where the community meets: the Share Exponential forums and GitHub Discussions ; the chats on Discord and Telegram ; the issue tracker for bugs. See Community channels and Exponential Community . Historical. The…
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Q: Where do I find community extensions? Updated
A: Most extensions for Exponential are Composer packages and GitHub repositories: the extensions maintained by 7x and the Exponential Foundation are listed under Extensions , and their source is in se7enxweb on GitHub ;…
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Q: Can templates be created and managed? Updated
A: Yes. Templates decide how every part of a page is shown: the content, the menus, the breadcrumbs. They are files in a design (design/<design>/ or extension/<name>/design/<design>/). An override replaces a template for…
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Q: How are cascading styles-sheets (CSS) supported? Updated
A: Stylesheets are files in the stylesheets/ directory of a design, loaded through design.ini [StylesheetSettings]; the ezjscore packer bundles and caches them. Write and change them like any other file of the design, ke…
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Q: How are styles and templates added for design and layo... Updated
A: Templates write the HTML of each page and of each part of it, and can hold display logic, such as the path (breadcrumbs) of the current item. Stylesheets, referenced by the templates, give the page its look. Because t…
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Q: How are styles, templates, etc transported between web... Updated
A: In three ways: Git : keep the design, best as an extension, in a repository and deploy it to every site. This is the usual way. Composer : publish the design extension as a package and install it with Composer. Packag…
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Q: How does the system display 3rd party content? Updated
A: The common ways are: In the templates : a script widget or an iframe that loads the remote content in the browser; RSS import (Setup > RSS): a cronjob turns the items of a feed into content objects ( How do I import a…
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Q: How can I learn more about Exponential? Updated
A: Start here: this documentation site, and the help center that every Exponential 6 installation carries (Help in the administration); Getting started : an installed site, a first published item and a first template cha…
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Q: I am new to Exponential, where should I start? Updated
A: It depends on what you do: Trying it: open the public demo . Installing it: with PHP and Composer, Getting started gets you a working site in minutes; Installing Exponential 6.0 has every method. Editing content: Gett…
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Q: What type of documentation is available? Updated
A: This site and the help center of every installation hold: Installing Exponential 6.0 and the installation book , with the requirements ; the User manual for editors, site managers and administrators; the Guides , step…
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Q: When should I use the eZ Publish Enterprise edition? (historical) Updated
Historical. The eZ Publish Enterprise edition was the commercial subscription of eZ Systems for eZ Publish: support, maintenance and a choice of licenses, among them the proprietary eZ Proprietary Use License. eZ Systems…
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Q: When should I use the eZ Community Project edition? (historical) Updated
Historical. The eZ Publish Community Project was the free edition of eZ Publish that eZ Systems developed with its community, beside the commercial Enterprise edition. eZ Systems discontinued eZ Publish. Exponential has…
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Q: Where can I download Exponential? Updated
A: Exponential is free to download: With Composer (recommended): composer create-project se7enxweb/exponential exponential; From GitHub: the releases of se7enxweb/exponential , or a clone of the repository; On Packagist:…
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Q: Where can I find the Exponential official, bundled ext... Updated
A: Some extensions ship inside the kernel repository, for example ezjscore, ezoe, ezformtoken and expservices. Many more are Composer packages (se7enxweb/<name>) that a Composer install brings along. Setup > Extensions i…
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Q: How do I install Exponential? Updated
A: With PHP and Composer, these commands install a working site on SQLite, without a database server: composer create-project se7enxweb/exponential exponential cd exponential php bin/php/console exp:install --apply --ran…
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Q: Where do I find the Exponential re-write rules with ex... Updated
A: The rewrite rules ship with Exponential as .htaccess_root in the installation root. Apache: run ./console exp:setup:htaccess --apply, or copy (do not move) .htaccess_root to .htaccess, so an update can bring new rules…
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Q: Which license does Exponential use? Updated
A: Exponential is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later version, in short GPL-2.0-or-later. Everyone gets Exponential under this one license, at no cost. There are no…
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Q: Does the system have a built-in editor to easily devel... Updated
A: Yes. Rich text fields, such as Intro and Body, have an editor with a toolbar: paragraph styles, bold and italic, lists, links, tables, embedded images and items, fullscreen and the source code. Under the field you can…
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Q: Does the system have a test environment in which the p... Updated
A: Yes. Every change is a draft until it is published, and Preview in the edit form shows the draft in the site's design: you choose the siteaccess, translation, location and view mode, and several screen sizes. An appro…
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Q: Does the system manage a central repository for conten... Updated
A: Yes. Images and files are content items like any other: they have versions, permissions and translations, and one item can be used on many pages. The Media tab opens the media library, a part of the content tree for f…