- Proposing a meetup How an advocate proposes and organizes an informal Exponential meetup as their own event - no official events are documented - from purpose and format to venue, announcement, agenda, code of conduct, privacy and…
- Quarterly access review A quarterly checklist for reviewing who can do what in an Exponential site of a public body - accounts, unused accounts, roles and assignments, administrators, API keys, sessions and the audit trail - with the admin…
- Redaction is a manual step Exponential has no redaction tool. This page explains where redaction happens (in the program that made the document), the common ways it fails, a checking routine before upload, and how Exponential's versions keep an…
- Remote services with expservices Using the expservices extension as an integration API - the JSON envelope, the catalog, tokens, reads and writes, an idempotent upsert by remote id over HTTP, content jobs, and adding a service domain of your own.
- Reset a staff password Step by step - help a colleague who cannot sign in, either through Forgot password or by setting a new password on their account page, after verifying who is asking, with what the system does for you afterwards.
- Restore and restore tests The restore procedure for an Exponential site step by step, how to run a restore test on another machine without sending mail or running jobs, and the checks that prove the restored site is complete.
- Restore drills How to prove that your backups work by restoring one on another machine on a schedule, what to check, how to keep the copy from mailing real customers, and how to record the result as evidence.
- Restore testing For public bodies that must prove their backups work. Why a backup that was never restored is a hope, how often to test, what a restore test checks, how to record the result as evidence for auditors and continuity…
- Retention of collected information How to keep form submissions in Exponential only as long as needed - who may read them, exporting to CSV with the audit record, removing collections per form or per submission, the copies that remain elsewhere, and a…
- Review CSP reports Step by step - collect Content Security Policy violation reports with Exponential's own csp/report collector, read them in Setup > Log files, tell real problems from noise, and decide per source what to fix or allow.
- ROI worksheet template A copy-ready worksheet for the business case of a website application on Exponential - one-time and running costs, benefits from sales, time saved and avoided downtime, net benefit, ROI and payback - with the formulas…
- Role design: approvers What an approver in a public body needs in Exponential to review and approve content held by an approval workflow - membership of the approvers' group, the collaboration inbox, versionread - and how to keep approval…
- Runbook: certificate expiry What to do when visitors see HTTPS warnings or a certificate is about to expire: check what is served, under Velocity with exp:velocity ssl show and renew, under Apache or nginx with your certificate tool or panel, and…
- Running it: a local business website after launch Keeping a local business website on Exponential useful and safe after launch - a weekly, monthly and yearly routine that fits a busy owner, seasonal changes, and backups, updates, accounts and security in plain words.
- Schedule a news item For editors and the administrator who sets it up - publish a news item or press release at a set time with Exponential's Wait until date workflow event and the workflow cronjob, what the editor does, how to check it…
- Search statistics and privacy How to use Setup > Search statistics to learn what the public looks for and does not find, how to switch recording on per siteaccess, and how to handle the personal data search phrases can contain.
- Sections for archives For administrators - how an Exponential section can hold archived content so that roles decide who reads it (public archive, staff-only archive), how content gets into a section, what moving does to sections, and the…
- Selling through networks and partners How a business uses Exponential to reach customers beyond its own website - partner and dealer sites, apps, marketplaces and data feeds, search engines and social networks - and which feature fits each channel, with the…
- Sessions, sign-out and shared computers How long staff stay signed in to an Exponential intranet (SessionTimeout, ActivityTimeout), how to shorten it, how to see and end sessions in Setup > Sessions with the database handler, and advice for shared computers…
- Settings and INI files in your application Give your application settings the Exponential way - your own INI file with defaults, overrides per siteaccess and installation, reading them with eZINI, changing them with exp:ini, caches, and keeping secrets out of…
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