- Order receipts and confirmation mail What a customer receives after buying in an Exponential store - the order confirmation mail to customer and shop, the permanent receipt link that never expires, and what to check before launch.
- PayPal Running PayPal payments in an Exponential store with the ezpaypal extension - the daily and monthly checks, keeping PayPal's status in line with your order statuses, what to watch on launch and after changes, and what…
- Records and audit requirements Requirement wording for records management and accountability in a public CMS - version history, a tamper-evident audit trail, retention, export for archives and evidence of who published what - with what Exponential…
- Retention schedules for website content For records managers and project managers of public bodies - how to write and apply a retention schedule for website content and system data with Exponential, given that the product has no retention schedule feature…
- Review dates with object states Exponential has no built-in content review date; this page shows what does exist - object states for a review stage, date fields with the hide cronjob, the Wait until date event - and how public bodies combine them into…
- RPO and RTO as decisions For service owners and continuity planners in public bodies. What a recovery point objective and a recovery time objective mean for an Exponential site, why they are organizational decisions and not properties of the…
- Run a cronjob part by hand Step by step - run one cronjob part or one script now, from Setup > Cronjobs with live output or from the shell, for example to publish approved content at once or after a restore.
- Security log The security signals an Exponential site writes (security.log from the request classifier, auth.log, the CSP report log and the audit trail), how to read them, which settings tune them, and how a host forwards them to a…
- Sessions across servers For IT teams running an Exponential site on several web servers. Where sessions are kept (PHP files or the database), how to keep editors signed in when a load balancer moves them between servers, what a failed node…
- Stale cache Runbook for a public site that keeps showing old content or old code after a change - which cache holds it (content view cache, templates, INI, the HTTP cache, Velocity's response cache, static cache, a CDN, the…
- Syndication between installations Sharing content between Exponential installations with the syndication extension - one-way and two-way syndication, feeds over SOAP, the export_feed and import_feed cronjob parts, protecting the source, operating it…
- The online editor and accessibility For public bodies whose staff write rich text - which online editor engines Exponential ships (TinyMCE 3 by default, TinyMCE 8 opt-in), why their accessibility is Unverified, and how to test the editor and its output…
- The REST API as a data interface For developers and administrators who consider the Exponential REST API (v1 and v2, extension ezprestapi) as a machine interface to datasets: what it returns as JSON, how authentication and permissions work, and what to…
- The setup wizard, then and now The twelve pages of the Learning book's setup wizard, matched to the pages of the Exponential 6 wizard, with what changed (database choices, site packages, siteaccess methods) and the commands that skip the wizard.
- Two-step sign-in for public staff For public bodies that require multi-factor authentication - how Exponential's two-step sign-in works (authenticator app or e-mail code, extension sevenx_authentication_2fa), how to turn it on and require it, how to…
- Upgrade check as a monitor Using the file consistency check (checkmanifest.php and Setup > Upgrade check) as a scheduled integrity monitor, so an unauthorized change to the code of a public website - a defacement, a web shell, a hand edit - is…
- Upgrade check before and after Using Setup > Upgrade check and its command-line counterpart as evidence around a change - the file consistency check against the release manifest, the database consistency check, the downloadable reports, and how to…
- Audit trail archives and backups For security officers, records officers and operations teams in public bodies. How Exponential's audit trail keeps live files and signed archives, how long by default, how to keep evidence for years on storage the web…
- Audit who has admin rights Step by step - list every account with full access or the right to change roles, using the role list badges, the role pages, Check user accounts and the audit trail, and record the result for an access review.
- Benchmarking a hosted site How a host measures Exponential sites with exp:benchmark: safe defaults, cached against rendered pages, comparing servers back to back, deploy regression checks, noise on shared machines, and turning measurements into…
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