- Set secure session cookies Step by step - on an HTTPS-only site, force the Secure flag on Exponential's session cookie, keep HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax, choose a session timeout with your editors, and check the flags with curl.
- Static and response cache The two caches that answer visitors without running the application, the static cache and Velocity's response cache, what each one costs and gives a business, when to use which, and how to keep them from serving stale…
- Store dashboard and reports What the Store dashboard tells a business owner - sales, customers, open orders, abandoned baskets, best sellers and setup advice - plus the order statistics and how to use them in a weekly review.
- Support and maintenance requirements Requirement wording for support and maintenance of an open source CMS - who supports what, severities and response times as blanks, security updates, upgrades, the upstream project's own commitments, and how to compare…
- Support contract reseller How to sell support contracts for Exponential sites - what a contract covers, severity levels, the three kinds of support behind you (community, partner tickets, paid 7x support), how to staff it so your promises hold…
- Supporter FAQ Short answers to common questions from people who want to support Exponential - skills needed, where to start, licenses, money, 7x versus the Foundation, recognition and companies - with links to the full pages.
- Switch the administration to another language Task for staff: choose the language of the administration's menus and buttons for yourself with the Interface language list, and know what changes and what does not.
- TCO worksheet template A copy-and-fill worksheet for the total cost of ownership of a website or intranet on Exponential, with one-off, recurring, internal, risk and exit lines, an assumptions register and a comparison block for several bids…
- Template overrides for site builders Give one class, one section, one node or one view mode its own template with an override rule - by click path in the template editor or as files in your design extension - and the match keys you can use.
- User account hygiene Keeping staff and visitor accounts tidy with Users > Check user accounts - accounts never used, not seen for months, disabled, locked, orphaned, sharing a login or address - and the bulk actions, lockout settings and…
- Velocity beside Apache or nginx The shapes in which Velocity and a traditional web server share a machine or an installation: a proxy in front of Velocity, both serving the same files during a migration, and A/B comparison, with the trust, ownership…
- View modes for builders A view mode is one way of drawing content - full page, line in a list, embed in rich text. The modes the kernel ships, how a page and a list choose one, adding your own mode, and which modes are cached.
- View results, templates and the pagelayout What a view returns and how it reaches the browser - the $Result array, templates in your extension's design, the pagelayout around it, alternative pagelayouts, JSON and file answers, and translations of view texts.
- View results, the path and the pagelayout What a view returns in $Result - content, path, navigation part, a different or no pagelayout - how the pagelayout receives it as $module_result, and how to answer with JSON or a file instead of a page.
- WebDAV and SOAP The two older protocols Exponential still speaks - WebDAV for mounting content as a drive, and a SOAP 1.1 server that extensions add functions to - how to switch each on, how they authenticate, their known gaps, and…
- Working with the community and contributing back Where the Exponential community meets, which tracker takes which report, how a fix or a page of documentation goes back upstream, and how a project team can plan and budget for contributing.
- Honesty and accuracy The accuracy habits that make advocates trustworthy - check before you say it, date your facts, separate fact from opinion, say what is not documented, correct openly - with a fact-checking routine and examples.
- Preparing a briefing How a reporter prepares for a briefing or interview about Exponential - the reading to do first, a one-page briefing sheet to fill in, how to plan questions, record and take notes, and how to check what you heard…
- Interview question bank Ready-made interview questions about Exponential for 7x and the Exponential Foundation, grouped by theme - history, organizations, releases, product, security, community, funding - each with the documented background…
- Respecting other projects and companies How advocates speak about other CMS projects, companies and communities - including eZ Systems, Ibexa, Netgen, Mugo Web and CJW Network - with fairness, credit and facts, and why attacking others hurts Exponential.
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