- Hand over documentation at contract end Step by step, collect and check the documentation an outgoing supplier hands over when a contract for an Exponential site ends - content model, roles, settings, code, deployment, operations, open issues - so a successor…
- How do I find out who changed what, and when? Open Audit > Console, filter by login, object (node:275), event name or time, and read each event with its actor, object, result and request; Verify now proves the record was not changed.
- How the footer is built From the footer zone of the shared layout Header / Footer to pagelayout/footer.tpl and its three data sources - FooterMenuID, the site info object and the Footer links folder - with the real file paths.
- Login handlers - LDAP, textfile and your own Letting people sign in to Exponential with an account that lives in a directory or another system - how the chain of login handlers works, the LDAP handler and its group mapping, the textfile handler, writing a login…
- Migrations on hosted sites What a customer's migration run does to your servers - the installation lock, the captions (database dumps and file copies) and their disk space, maintenance mode, background runs started from the administration, the…
- OAuth2 authorization code flow Sign app users in with OAuth2 against Exponential - registering the client in oAuth admin, the authorize page and its exact redirect address, the oauth/authorize policy, exchanging the code at /api/auth/v1/oauth/token…
- Open data readiness What a public body checks before it publishes open data from an Exponential site - datasets as content, files, licenses, metadata, stable addresses, feeds and the REST API - with what Exponential provides and that it…
- Reliability scorecard A checklist to score how reliably your Exponential site is run, in ten areas with three levels each, how to use the score each quarter, and links to the page that explains every item.
- Security updates and independence How a public body keeps an Exponential installation secure without depending on one vendor: where security fixes come from, how to learn about releases, how to apply updates with the upgrade check and ezupdate, and what…
- Switch on account lockout Step by step - lock accounts after a number of failed sign-ins with MaxNumberOfFailedLogin, exempt trusted office networks, decide what users are told, and plan how locked staff get unlocked.
- Version constraints your users write Recommend a Composer version constraint for your theme in its README - tilde, caret, exact pins and dev-main - what each lets an update bring, and how your numbering makes them safe.
- Add a license field to a dataset class Task for administrators: add a required License selection to the dataset class with the licenses your body approved, and fill it for existing datasets.
- CAPTCHAs and privacy For public bodies protecting forms from spam - what the optional recaptcha (Google reCAPTCHA) and hcaptcha (hCaptcha) extensions do, the data they send to the provider, consent and notice implications, accessibility…
- Change the prefooter in the Layouts editor Step by step with screenshots - add an article to the "Most popular articles" list of the shared layout Prefooter in the Layouts editor, reorder it, publish, and see it on every article and recipe page. No code, no…
- Configuration managed by the deployment For public bodies with change management - how the ManagedByDeployment switch makes the administration unable to change settings, templates, extensions and packages in production, so every change goes through version…
- Exit readiness A checklist that keeps a public body ready to leave its supplier, its host or Exponential itself at any time - code and access you control, documented exports tested, keys and backups in your hands, contract terms and a…
- Legal holds For public bodies that must preserve website content and system records during litigation, an investigation or an information request - Exponential has no legal hold feature, so this page gives a process built from…
- Read system information for a support request Step by step - prepare a support request to your partner or the project - download the system information report (secrets left out), add the error reference and log lines, and say which server answered.
- Reliability FAQ Short, sourced answers to the questions owners and managers ask most about Exponential's stability, support, uptime, backups, upgrades, Velocity, databases and what to do when something goes wrong.
- Rotate the audit signing key Step by step - replace the key that signs Exponential's audit checkpoints and archive manifests, yearly or at once after a suspected leak, while keeping old keys for old archives, and back up the result.
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