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General Questions
Product
eZ Platform and eZ Studio are components of the eZ CMS solution.
eZ Platform is open-source. eZ Studio bases on eZ Platform and adds new = functionalities. Platform and Studio together are covered by one subscripti= on under the name eZ Enterprise.
eZ Platform is fully open-source and available at Github.
eZ Studio is a commercial solution.
If you are using eZ as an editor or content manager, you do not need to = have any programming knowledge.
Installing and configuring eZ will require at least basic familiarity of= web development. Some more advanced customization possibilities may requir= e programming skills (such as knowledge of PHP or Twig).
Demo Bundle is a sample website you can get with your installation of eZ= . There are two different Demo Bundles: one for eZ Platform and one for eZ = Studio.
The Bundle contains a small number of initial preset Content Types. You = can apply them directly in your website or use them as a starting point to = create your own Content Types.
See Requirements for the c= onfiguration required for installing eZ.
See Installation for= a guide on how to install eZ products.
Editing
eZ offers three different work modes: Content mode,
Content mode&n= bsp;gives access to the content repository. It is mostly the role of eZ Pla= tform, but for users of eZ Studio it will in the future be enriched wi= th specific Studio functionalities.
Its focus is creating, modifying, organizing and publishing Content= items. Content mode is an inte= rface for the repository, that is the place in which eZ stores all the cont= ent.
This mode lets you navigate the Content tree and edit any content presen= t in it, as well as to move, copy and delete it. You can also create new co= ntent using the previously defined Content Types.
You can preview any Content within the tree, but the Content mode does n= ot allow you to edit a Content item directly from this preview.
Page mode al= lows you to manage website pages and website content from the pages themsel= ves. It is only available for eZ Studio users. It can be enriched by eZ Clo= ud services functionalities for users subscribed to them.
It allows front-end editing, that is modifying pages directly from their= preview. Using a special Timeline toolbar you can also preview and modify = the content of a page at a future date.
The Page mode offers a speci= al functionality of creating a Landing Page - a special kind of Content wit= h advanced customization options.
Performance mode gives access to optimization capabilities such as Analy= tics and cloud services management tools.
Administration
You can restrict access to your website per User or User group. Each Use= r (or group) can be assigned Roles and Policies which define the operations= they can perform on the website. You can assign them globally or only to p= arts of the website, by applying Sections.
See Managing permiss= ions for more information.
Policies are basic elements of the permissions system. They are rules de= fining access to one functionality of one module (for example modifying art= icles), with possible further limitations.
See Managing permiss= ions for more information.
Roles are an element of the permissions system. They are collections of = Policies assigned to a particular user Role (for example a sports section e= ditor).
See Managing permiss= ions for more information.
You can do it in the Admin Panel by selecting the Roles tab.
See Managing permiss= ions for more information.
Sections can be used to divide your content tree into separate parts. Th= is is done for the purpose of limiting access to some of these parts for se= lected Users or User groups.
See Managing Secti= ons for more information.
You can divide your Content tree into sections in the Admin Panel, see <= a href=3D"/display/USERGUIDE/Managing+Sections">Managing Sections.
Then you can create Policies which concern only this Section.
Yes, every Content item can have multipl= e language versions. See Editing content language versions and Managing languages for more = information.
It is a collection of configuration settings provided when accessing a w= ebsite. A single site can have multiple siteaccesses which define the conte= nt and design of the page that will be displayed. This functionality can be= used for example to create separate versions of the website for visitors a= nd for administrators, or for different language versions.
See Siteaccess for more tech= nical information.
You can control the look of your website with great precision by creatin= g and applying Twig templates. You can also create custom layouts for Landi= ng Pages.
See Templating for more tech= nical information.
Support
You can find the eZ User G= uide here.
Technical documentation for Platform and Studio is available in: eZ Technical Manual.
You can find the technical documentation for eZ Publish 5.x (an earlier = version) in eZ Publish 5.x Developer Documentation.
To find more information about the company and products, have a look at = ez.no.
If you need more questions answered, have a look at our Support and Maintenance services.
If you would like to share your questions or ideas with other eZ users, = you can do it on:
- eZ Community portal.
- eZ Community Slack channel where you can disc= uss the software and ask for help or support.
If you would like to contact eZ or any of our offices, you can find the = contact information here.
eZ Platform
Product
You can download the current version of eZ Platform from: http://share.ez.no/downloads/downloads.
Here is a guide to installing eZ products (covering both eZ Pl= atform and eZ Studio).
Content model
In the broad sense, content is everything that is placed on a site for t= he visitor to see.
In the narrow sense, a Content item is a single object used on a site. I= t can be, for example, an article, a photo gallery or a blog post. Technica= lly, a Content item is an instance of a Content Type (that is, it is a sing= le object created on the basis of a "blueprint" which is the Content Type).=
Content Types can be treated as templates or blueprints for Content. The= y define Fields and their Field Types which are then assigned values when a= Content item is created based on this Content Type.
Content Types are conceptually similar to classes in object-oriented pro= gramming.
A small set of ready-to-use Content Types is provided with the Demo Bundle.
Yes, you can adapt any Content Types provided in the Demo Bundle to your= needs. See Creating and managing Content Types for more information.
Yes, you can freely create any new Content Types. See Creating and managin= g Content Types for more information.
Field Types define type of data which can be stored in a Field. Field Ty= pes which make up Content are defined in the Content Type.
Field Type is conceptually similar to a data type in programming. Howeve= r, the available Field Types include both simple data types (for example in= teger or float numbers) and more complex structures (for example image, med= ia file or binary file).
Yes, you can create custom Field Types. However, this is not available f= rom the Admin Panel (like creating Content Types). Instead, they have to be= created using PHP.
Editing
You can create a new Content item in the Content mode by clicking
A Content item in itself does not have a place in the Content tree and i= s not visible for a visitor of the website. To take its place in the websit= e it has to be assigned a Location ID.
A single Content item can have more than one Location ID, that is, it wi= ll be shown in more than one place in the Content tree. A single Location, = however, can only have one Content item in it.
When you create a new Content item, it will automatically be given a Loc= ation ID and placed as a child of the Content item you were viewing when yo= u clicked Create.
You can limit the visibility of a Content item by hiding the Location it= is placed in. Hiding a Location also hides all other Locations that are un= der it in the content tree.
In Content mode you cannot edit Content while previewing it (this option= is available only in Studio).
You can preview your content while editing it = by clicking one of the icons under Preview in the action bar. See Optimizing content for mo= re information.
The Save function allows you to save the current workin= g copy into a draft to potentially reuse it later. The new version will not= be published and then not visible on the site or through the API as publis= hed content
The Publish function allows you to publish the final ve= rsion of the content object. As a result the working copy turns into a publ= ished version that is visible on the site and available through the API as = a publish content.
eZ Studio
Product
Yes, eZ Studio is based on eZ Platform and contains it with all of its f= unctionalities.
eZ Studio offers a number of additional features aside from what is avai= lable in Platform. The key of them are:
- Easy creation of Landing Pages
- Intuitive Page mode editing
- Flex Workflow functionality for managing the review process
- Automated scheduling of the times when new content is aired on the page= .
Here is a guide to installing eZ products (covering both eZ Pl= atform and eZ Studio).
Editing
A Landing Page is a special kind of a Content item. It is a page designe= d to be the visitor's entry point into your website.
A Landing Page has a customizable layout with multiple zones where you c= an place predefined blocks with dynamic content.
You can create a new Landing Page in the Page mode by clicking C= reate. See Creating content - Landing Page for more information.
Here is the list of p= redefined Landing Page blocks.
You also have the possibility of creating your own, custom blocks.
You can use the Schedule B= lock to select Content items and plan the times at which they will be d= isplayed on a Landing Page.
The Timeline Toolba= r lets you preview changes that will happen to your Landing Page with t= ime. Simply drag the slider at the top of the page to the time you wish to = view.
You can use the Flex Workflow functionality to send your Content to revi= ew. You can access it from the Action bar in Content mode. See Content review workflow= for more information.