Government FAQ
These pages answer the questions that public bodies ask about Exponential, in procurement, in evaluation and in daily work. Every answer links the page of the documentation that backs it, and the answers say "no" where the product does not do something: no VPAT, no cookie banner, no published SLA, no built-in records schedules, no GIS. Those honest answers are as useful in a procurement as the positive ones.
The pages
| Page | Short answer to the main question |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | admin4 partly complies with WCAG 2.2 AA; EN 301 549 and Section 508 unverified; no VPAT; public designs are the builder's responsibility |
| Security | mitigations for the whole OWASP Top 10, tamper-evident audit trail; no ASVS assessment; lockout and 2FA are your decisions |
| Privacy and data protection | consent records, erasure and log masking are provided; the organization stays the controller; no cookie banner |
| Hosting and data location | install it wherever you want: your data center, your country, any hosting model |
| Licensing and open source | GPL version 2 or later, no license fee, source public |
| Cost | no license or per-user cost; services, hosting, training and upgrades cost |
| Support | free community support, paid support from 7x or partners; the project publishes no SLA |
| Languages and right-to-left | multilingual content and right-to-left in content and administration |
| Migration from older systems | sites of the older code base, the Symfony platforms and other systems can move, with guides |
| Training | fifteen free course programs; no official certification defined yet |
| Integrations and APIs | REST v1 and v2, API keys, RSS, exports; single sign-on and GIS are custom work |
| Records and audit | versions, trash and a hash-chained audit trail; not a records management system |
| The project and its maintainers | maintained by 7x with the Exponential Foundation; check activity in the changelog |
| Releases and upgrades | 6.0.x supported; versions never change; fixes come as the next release |
| Search | built-in search, or Solr through ezfind |
| Forms and newsletters | information collection forms and cjw_newsletter with double opt-in |
| Many sites and many departments | several sites on one installation, permissions per department |
| Performance and Velocity | caches and Velocity; measure your own site with exp:benchmark |
| Exit and lock-in | change supplier freely; documented exports in open formats |
| AI features | optional; writes drafts only, as the editor, never publishes; you choose the provider |
Reading order
For a procurement panel: Licensing, Cost, Support, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, then Exit and lock-in. For a website team: the topic you are working on.
Related pages
- Government: start here
- Government checklists
- Exponential: frequently asked questions
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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