- Give contractors extranet access Task for administrators: give one contractor's staff access to their own project area only, with a user group, a section, a limited role assignment and personal accounts, and record the end date.
- Outgoing webhooks from the audit trail Using the audit trail's signed webhook sink as an outgoing event feed - what it sends, how to route content events such as content.object.publish to it, the HMAC signature and how a receiver checks it, delivery with…
- PDF and document formats for disclosures Which formats to use for published responses, reports and registers, how Exponential's PDF export turns a part of the content tree into one PDF, and the accessibility and machine-readability points to check.
- Preserving URLs For public bodies whose addresses are cited in decisions, letters and laws - how Exponential keeps URLs stable (URL aliases, history aliases that redirect after a rename or move, global aliases, wildcards), what breaks…
- Preview before you publish How drafts, versions, preview, approval workflows and the trash keep editorial mistakes away from customers, and how a business sets rules for who publishes what, so that content changes are as safe as code changes.
- Remove a role assignment Step by step - take a role away from a user or a group on the role page with Remove selected, clean up assignments whose user or group no longer exists, and check the access is gone.
- Restore an archived audit day Step by step - read audit records older than the 90 live days by restoring the archived day with exp:audit restore, check it against its signed manifest, search it, and know what happens to the restored copy.
- Search backends The search options a host can offer for Exponential sites: the built-in database search with its limits and delayed indexing, rebuilding the index, the optional Solr search through the eZ Find extension, the exp:solr…
- Translator roles and permissions How to give translators in a public body exactly the rights they need in Exponential: a role with content/read, content/edit and content/translate limited by Language (and section), why content/create matters, and how…
- Upgrading customer sites How a host brings customer installations to a newer Exponential release - taking inventory of versions, planning windows, the code, database and cache steps of an upgrade within the 6.0 line, the checks that prove it…
- Workflows for builders Make something happen around publishing: workflows, events, triggers, processes and the workflow cronjob, explained for builders, with an approval workflow and the event types that need no code.
- Write an exit plan Step by step, write the exit plan for an Exponential site before signing a contract - scenarios, what is exported in which format, who does what in the handover, keys and access, timing, and how the plan is tested…
- Cronjobs for builders What runs on a schedule - cronjob parts and scripts in cronjob.ini, runcronjobs.php, the Setup > Cronjobs page and the crontab lines - and how a builder adds an existing script to a part or schedules a part.
- Databases: choosing and running one The six databases Exponential 6.0.x supports, in the project's order of preference - SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL - compared as an engineer compares them - driver, CI coverage, multi-node use…
- Deploying changes How to ship a code, settings or template change to a hosted Exponential site so it is live at once and never cached half way - exp:velocity deploy and its order of steps, why a PHP-FPM reload affects other customers…
- Election period publishing readiness Common practice for public bodies that restrict or review publishing during an election period, and how Exponential's roles, sections, object states, approval workflows and the audit trail can support those rules - as…
- Export audit records for an auditor Step by step - export audit trail records for an internal or external auditor as CSV, JSON lines or JSON from Audit > Export or with exp:audit export, with a verification result attached and the export handled as…
- FAQ: exit and lock-in Answers to the lock-in questions public bodies ask about Exponential - can we change supplier, can we leave the product, what can be exported and in which formats, what happens to users and addresses, and where lock-in…
- Find accounts not used for months Step by step - list staff accounts nobody has used for a chosen number of days, or never used, with Users > Check user accounts, confirm with the departments, and disable them.
- Footer menu items The Fit & Healthy footer has two link lines with two different sources - FooterMenuID in menu.ini (like the header) and the Footer links folder in the content tree. How to add to each, in the administration and by…
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