- Running a store day to day Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly routines for running an Exponential store - handling orders through their statuses, the dashboard's to-do lists, customer questions, catalog care, checks on payments, mail, backups and…
- Single sign-on and social login What Exponential offers for single sign-on - the SingleSignOnHandlerArray hook, social login as an OAuth 2.0 client in sevenx_authentication_2fa, putting a SAML or OpenID Connect proxy in front of the site - and what it…
- Sovereignty checklist One checklist for a public body that wants to stay in control of its Exponential platform: license and code, hosting and data location, external services, formats and exports, skills and providers, updates and exit…
- Turn on two-step sign-in for staff Step by step - check the 2FA extension and login handler, add the field to the user class, give every staff role user2fa/setup and user2fa/verify, encrypt the secrets, enroll administrators first, then require it with…
- What can I do on my account page? My account shows your login, e-mail, groups, roles and last sign-in, and leads to every page about you - profile, password, two-step sign-in, API keys, bookmarks, notifications and e-mail preferences.
- Write the acceptance test plan Step by step, write the plan a public body uses to accept a delivered Exponential site - one test per requirement, functional, accessibility, security, privacy, performance, operations and documentation tests, pass…
- Check license obligations for custom code Step by step, check that custom code delivered for a public body's Exponential site respects the GPL and gives you the rights you need - source received, licenses of extensions and libraries, third-party assets, and…
- Extend audit retention Step by step - keep Exponential's audit archives longer than the shipped 730 days when your records schedule requires it, per channel, with an archive directory on write-once storage, and check the result.
- File consistency check For public bodies that must detect unauthorized changes to their web application - how Exponential's file consistency check compares every file with the release's checksum list, in the admin and on the command line…
- Form submissions as records For public bodies whose web forms start cases (requests, complaints, applications) - how Exponential stores submissions, exporting them into a case or records system, removing them on schedule, and the audit records of…
- Help a user who lost their phone Step by step - after verifying the person, switch their two-step sign-in to e-mail codes or off by editing the Two-step sign-in field of their user object, let them sign in and set up the app again, and record it.
- How do I find and finish my drafts? Dashboard > My drafts lists every draft that belongs to you, new objects and changes alike; find one by name, place or age, click Edit to finish and publish it, or remove the ones you no longer need.
- Manual and dynamic collections The items of a List or Grid block come from a collection - hand-picked (manual) or a query on the content tree (dynamic, query types Exponential and Topics). How to switch, what the dynamic options are, and how the same…
- Publish a feed of new datasets Task for administrators: create an RSS 2.0 or Atom export of the data catalog in Setup > RSS, map the dataset fields, and link the feed from the catalog page.
- Renew an HTTPS certificate in Velocity Step by step - see which certificate Exponential Velocity serves and when it expires, renew it (automatically for Let's Encrypt, by command, or by replacing your own files), and check that the running server picked it…
- Roles and policies, step by step How the role system decides who may do what: a role is a set of policies (module, function, limitation), assigned to users and groups, with the functions of the content module and what changed since the book.
- Search engine integration How site search is wired in Exponential and how to connect an external search service - the built-in engine, the ezpSearchEngine plugin interface, Solr through ezfind and exp:solr, delayed indexing, reindexing after…
- Setting up several sites in one installation Run several websites from one Exponential installation - one siteaccess per site, a root folder per site, per-site designs and settings in extensions, host matching, cross-site links and the operational trade-offs.
- Store weekly checklist A thirty-minute weekly checklist for the store manager and owner of an Exponential store - the dashboard review, orders to archive, catalog upkeep, payments, mail, customer questions and the notes for the week ahead.
- The packer cache and deploys Which caches to clear after a stylesheet, script, template or settings change of a design, why packed files and template-blocks go together, and the one deploy command that does it on installations with Velocity.
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