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Introduction
🌟 We have over 110 articles to help get you started and are quickly working to make our documentation even better. If anything is missing you would like to see covered within our docs please post your docs suggestions...
5/6/2020 7:13:50 PM
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Cloning Plato
To clone the Plato repository locally open up your favourite command line or shell terminal and navigate to a folder on your hard drive where you would like to install Plato. Once you've navigated to your target...
8/27/2019 11:59:17 AM
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Main Modules
Plato is composed of modules. Currently we have over 100 official modules that add opt-in functionality to Plato. This means you can pick and choose the features available within your Plato installation. To learn more...
8/27/2019 1:40:40 PM
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Email Notifications
Various Plato modules will often generate email notifications. In this article we provide some tips & tricks on working with email within Plato. Customising Email Notifications All email templates can be found within...
8/28/2019 3:33:36 PM
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Plato.Mentions
The Plato.Mention module adds the ability for you to @mention other users within your team or community to share posts or get them involved in conversations. Enabling Plato.Mentions Login as an administrator and visit...
8/28/2019 4:50:28 PM
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Images
Plato.Markdown makes it easy to link to or upload images. Linking to Images  The above markdown would embed the video within your content like so...
8/29/2019 12:39:46 PM
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Lists
Unordered lists can be added like so... - List Item 1 - List Item 2 - List Item 3 This would produce the following list... List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3 Ordered Lists Ordered lists can be added...
8/29/2019 12:41:06 PM
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Code Blocks
Large code blocks are surrounded by 3 back tick (```) characters. public Common.Collections.FieldTemplateDetailCollection SelectFields() { if (_fieldCollection == null) { // build field template object var ft =...
8/29/2019 12:48:37 PM
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Reference
A quick reference to all common mark down tags supported with Plato.Markdown.
8/29/2019 1:52:04 PM
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Plato.Articles
Plato.Articles adds an online knowledge base to Plato. After enabling Plato.Articles you'll notice a new " Articles " link appears both within your front-end and administrator navigation. Plato.Articles comes...
8/29/2019 5:32:04 PM
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Notable Modules
Plato offers hundreds of modules, some big some small. Whilst we can't cover every module offered with Plato just yet we've provided documentation for what we would consider the larger more notable modules here.
8/29/2019 6:27:01 PM
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Using Plato
If your new to Plato you can learn how the basics here.
8/29/2019 6:50:05 PM
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General Settings
As the title would suggest the General settings page allows you to configure application wide settings to customise your Plato installation. You can see the general settings page below... The following settings...
8/29/2019 11:17:55 PM
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Permissions
The permissions available within Plato are determined by the features you have enabled within your Plato installation. Permissions are associated with roles . For each role within Plato you can enable or disable...
8/30/2019 12:03:02 AM
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Deleting Users
Deleting a user within Plato will permanently delete the user and all there contributions from the Plato database. Once you delete a user you cannot recover that user or there content. TIP If you want to simply hide...
8/30/2019 12:45:40 PM
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Upgrading the core
The Plato core refers to the main libraries or projects that provide all common , lower level functionality within Plato. For example asset management module management, caching, localization, authentication, permissions,...
8/30/2019 11:21:37 PM
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Roles
Plato offers a rich role based security model. Roles can be used to control both the permissions a user has and the content a user can access. Roles can be managed via the administrator dashboard from the Roles...
8/31/2019 12:06:30 AM
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