- Export audit records for an investigation Step by step - select the audit records an investigation needs, verify the chains, export them as a signed bundle or JSON lines with their sha256, and document the hand-over so the export can serve as evidence.
- FAQ: search Answers to the search questions public bodies ask about Exponential - built-in site search, Solr with ezfind, searching documents, search in several languages, search statistics and privacy, and searching in the…
- Give log access without admin rights Step by step - let a developer, support engineer or operator read Setup > Log files, the error digest and log health with personal data masked, without full access, and decide separately about managing and unmasking…
- Header menu troubleshooting The new header menu item does not appear - the causes found on a real installation, in the order to check them - compiled template, page cache, wrong file or scope, wrong siteaccess, a node that cannot be fetched…
- How do I see all products and their prices? Store > Products overview lists the products of one class with their prices; choose the class, sort by name or price and page through them.
- Keeping versions longer For administrators: how many versions Exponential keeps (content.ini VersionManagement), how to raise the limit for record-relevant classes, what cleanupversions.php does, and who should be allowed to remove versions.
- Mail delivery How Exponential sends mail (sendmail, SMTP or the file transport), the MailSettings a host sets for each customer, what the host's mail infrastructure must provide for mail to arrive (sender domain, SPF, DKIM, DMARC)…
- Maintenance mode and planned work How to plan and announce work that takes an Exponential site offline, what customers and search engines see during maintenance mode, how to switch it on and off from the administration or a shell, and the safety rules…
- Order confirmation mail Keeping the order confirmation mail of an Exponential store working and useful - who receives it, the settings behind it, a monthly delivery check, what to put in it and what not, and what to ask your host when mails go…
- Previewing a design on a siteaccess How to see a new or changed design on real content without touching the live site: a preview siteaccess with the same content and your design, the settings it needs, and how to switch the live site over when the design…
- Review the security log weekly Step by step - a weekly review of security.log through the error digest and the log viewer - categories and rules, high-confidence lines that got a 200, floods, new targets - with a short record for the security team.
- Right-to-left in the administration What staff who work in Hebrew, Arabic or another right-to-left interface language get in the Exponential administration since 6.0.15: a mirrored layout, isolated names, right-to-left editing, and the known follow-ups.
- Security headers For administrators of public sites - the five security headers Exponential sends on every page by default, how to check them, how to change one safely, and how Velocity, Apache and nginx handle static files.
- Tender template: exit and data return clause Clause text for the end of a CMS contract - exit plan, complete data return in open formats, source and documentation hand-over, transition support, secure credential hand-over and deletion - with the Exponential export…
- Upgrade readiness A checklist for a public body before, during and after an upgrade of its Exponential site - changelog, upgrade check, staging, backup, maintenance window, the seven update steps, verification and communication.
- What cannot be exported For public bodies planning how to answer access and portability requests - the limits of Exponential's exports (no single export of a person's data, accounts as content objects, form submissions per form, pseudonymized…
- Writable directories and permissions Which directories of an Exponential installation must be writable and by whom, the one-user and one-group setups, the hardened file modes, settings files with secrets, Velocity's own files, and how to repair ownership…
- Activating a theme: ActiveExtensions and ActiveAccessExtensions Switch a theme extension on for the whole installation or for one siteaccess, in the browser (Setup > Extensions) or on the command line, and run the steps that make the change visible.
- Administration interface languages Which languages the Exponential administration is translated into, how complete each translation is according to the project's own measurements, which ones are machine-assisted, how staff choose their language, and how…
- Caches after a change Which cache to clear after which kind of change - menu settings, templates, layouts, content - in the administration's Clear cache box and with exp:cache, and what each choice covers.
Documentation license
This documentation is free documentation, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later.
Exponential Copyright © 1998-2026 Exponential Foundation and 7x