Help for Administrators

Run the installation: sites, users and roles, caches, logs, security and the system's health.

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A tour of the administration The header, the tabs, the side columns and the dashboard of the administration, and two walk-throughs: edit...
User manual One question per page for the work in the Admin 4 administration - the tabs, the daily tasks of editors, an...
Add a database table A migration that creates a table of the site's own on every engine from a share/db_schema.dba definition, w...
AI, agents and agentic: start here The landing page for people who use AI with Exponential and for people who build agents and agentic workflo...
Customers: start here The landing page for organizations and people who run their own site on Exponential, and their teams: a sta...
Governments: start here The landing page for public bodies that run or plan to run Exponential - ministries, regions and states, co...

Migrations for administrators

For administrators who apply migrations that developers wrote - reading the status and the dashboard block, the routine before and after a deploy, running from Setup > Migrations or the console, what a failure looks…
Migrations

The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the same order, with a caption…
Migrations in the administration

Where the migrations of an installation show in the administration - Setup > Migrations, the dashboard block and the website sidebar - which page explains what, and which policy each needs.
Migrations: a tour of Setup > Migrations

A guided tour of every screen of Setup > Migrations with screenshots - the tabs, what each one is for, the dashboard block, the Recording bar and the website sidebar - and a table that says which page to open for each…
Migrations: deploy step by step

Setup > Migrations > Deploys step by step with screenshots. Choose remotes or groups, choose Send and run, Transfer only or Staged, check with Preflight only, deploy, follow every remote live, read the report, approve…
When a migration fails: troubleshooting by symptom

Troubleshooting migrations by what you see - a failed run, a refused run, a migration that does not run or runs where it should not, a held lock, nothing restored, a push that waits, a run in the administration that…

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