- How do I subscribe to notifications for a part of the site? Open the context menu of an item in Content structure and choose Add to my notifications, or click Add items in My notification settings; you then get mail when the item or its sub items change.
- Privacy by design checklist A checklist for public bodies building or reviewing a site on Exponential - privacy by design and by default from planning through launch and operation, with the setting or tool for each item.
- Reset search statistics Step by step - check which siteaccesses record search phrases, use the figures, and remove all recorded phrases with Reset statistics on Setup > Search statistics, because phrases can contain names and case numbers.
- Secrets in settings/override For administrators and hosting teams of public sites - which files in settings/override hold secrets (database password, audit keys, mail preference secret, Velocity token, 2FA encryption key), what happens if they are…
- Set up search for documents Task for administrators: make the text inside PDF (and Word) documents searchable with the binaryfile.ini text extraction handlers and an installed extraction tool, then rebuild the index and test.
- Sign out all sessions of a user Step by step - end every browser session of one account (a lost laptop, a suspected compromise, a leaver), by disabling the account, changing its password, or removing its sessions on Setup > Sessions with the database…
- How do I find content in the administration? Type in the Search box of the top bar for a word search, use Advanced search to filter by class, section, date and place, or type an id, path or address into the Content finder in the left column.
- How do I empty the trash or remove single items from it? Open Trash in the left column; Restore puts an item back, Remove selected deletes the ticked items for good and Empty trash deletes everything; the list shows who trashed each item and where it was.
- Separating the administration For public bodies that want the editing interface out of the public's reach - giving the administration siteaccess its own host, restricting it by network, VPN or a second authentication, request rules for system URLs…
- Set log retention Step by step - give Exponential's kernel logs an age limit with MaxAgeDays per log (404, security and CSP have one already), schedule pruning with the logs cronjob part, and check with a dry run.
- Set up environment-specific settings Step by step - name each machine's environment with EXP_ENV in config.env.php and keep the settings that differ (mail transport, debug output, the admin badge) in variant files, so a test copy never mails citizens and…
- Turn on search statistics Task for administrators: record what visitors search for on a public siteaccess (LogSearchStats), read Setup > Search statistics, and reset the phrases on a schedule because they can contain personal data.
- Users, groups and roles in the example Sections, user groups and role definitions for the club portal, done step by step, with the settings (default user group, policies that skip the check) and what to check today.
- Velocity persistent workers How Exponential Velocity runs PHP - the parent, the warm-up, the zygote and the persistent worker pool, how the pool is sized and when a worker is replaced, what is reset between requests and what is not, which user…
- How do I change the order of sub items? In the Ordering tab of the parent, choose Sort by and Sort order and click Set; with Sort by Priority, enter a number for each sub item and click Update priorities.
- Add a newsletter list for alerts Task for administrators: add an alert list (for example consultations) to cjw_newsletter, link its subscribe form from the topic's pages, and send a first alert after a rehearsal.
- How do I change the content class of an object? Choose Change content class in the object's context menu, pick the destination class, map each old field to a new one and confirm; the object keeps its place, id and versions.
- Lock configuration with ManagedByDeployment Step by step - switch on ManagedByDeployment for the production administration siteaccess so settings, templates, extensions and packages can only change through version control, and check what is locked and what stays…
- Log review routine A weekly and monthly log review routine for the administrators of a public site - which Exponential logs and audit views to read, what to look for, commands to use, and how to record the review as evidence.
- Review the security log Step by step - the weekly read of Exponential's security.log in Setup > Log files - what the request classifier records, which lines need a closer look (injection or traversal with status 200 or 500), and what to do…
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