- Sign-in options for staff The sign-in options an Exponential intranet has (local accounts, the LDAP and text-file login handlers of the kernel, two-step sign-in from sevenx_authentication_2fa), how login handlers are chained, and what is not…
- Staging and approval How a public body moves a change from development through test (staging) to production with Exponential - one code base per environment, settings variants with EXP_ENV, a copy of the data for testing, the checks to run…
- The European Accessibility Act and Exponential For public bodies and their suppliers in the EU - how the European Accessibility Act (EU) 2019/882 relates to a site run with Exponential, when it may matter to a public body, and what evidence the project can and…
- User accounts and passwords The account and password policy a business should set on Exponential - password rules, common-password refusal, two-step sign-in, what happens when a password changes, reset links, lockouts and keeping the account list…
- VAT rules and VAT types How an Exponential store charges VAT or sales tax - fixed VAT types, VAT rules by customer country and product category, how the best rule is chosen, and what a business must confirm with its tax adviser.
- VAT types and rules Looking after VAT in a running Exponential store - who owns the VAT setup, what to do when a rate changes, adding a rule for a new country or product group, removing a VAT type safely, and testing. Not tax advice.
- Velocity response cache The response cache in Velocity's parent process for hosted sites: what it stores and never stores, the velocity.ini settings and their trade-offs, conditional requests and stale-while-revalidate, 404s and logs, clearing…
- Versions and the audit trail How a non-profit uses Exponential's version history and tamper-evident audit trail for accountability - what each records, how many versions are kept (45 by default, per class configurable), comparing and restoring…
- Worked example: an intranet A step-by-step cost and benefit calculation for a staff intranet on Exponential, where the return comes from time saved rather than sales, using only labeled example assumptions and a realistic discount for time that is…
- Choosing a ready-made content class Which of the content classes that site packages install fits which job - folder, article, image, file, link, frontpage, feedback form, comment, forum, gallery, event and the media classes - and what to check before you…
- Launch checklist for adopters A launch checklist for adopters of Exponential - content and URLs, accounts and roles, security hardening, backups and restore, caches and speed, monitoring, accessibility, legal pages, and the people side - before…
- The requirements checklist Every requirement a site package has to meet, in one checklist, each marked as enforced by the code or as a convention of the shipped 7x packages, with the file that checks it and what happens without it.
- Users in the ecosystem The users of the Exponential ecosystem - organizations that own sites, editors, administrators, members and visitors - what the ecosystem gives each of them, and where each finds help in this documentation.
- How Exponential releases happen How a change travels from a pull request to a tagged Exponential release, why published tags never change, how version numbers count, which lines are supported, and where community members can help along the way.
- Required package.xml fields The package.xml fields the code refuses a package without, with the exact rules for the name, the version and type tokens, the vendor, the ezpublish and packaging elements, and the fields that are conventions of the…
- Status transitions and permissions How Exponential decides who may change an order's status - the shop/setstatus policy with its FromStatus and ToStatus limitations, how several policies combine, role designs for packing staff, customer service and…
- Archive, remove and cleanup The three ways orders leave the order list in Exponential and what each does to the data - archiving, removing a single order, and the shop cleanup that deletes every order - with their audit events, the basket and…
- How security reports are handled What community members do when they find or hear of a security problem in Exponential - the private reporting path, what to include and leave out, what happens next, and how to behave in public channels until a fix is…
- License and documents How a site package states its license, in the licence element of package.xml and in the documents/LICENCE file, how package.ini LicenseSettings turns a stored value into a named license with a link, and what the shipped…
- Roles and permissions for the rollout How adopters set up roles and permissions in Exponential for the rollout - from the people roles of the project to roles and policies in the administration, least privilege, sections and subtrees, testing with test…
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