- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Stable URLs for datasets How to give every dataset an address that keeps working for years: what Exponential does automatically after renames and moves, what breaks an address, and the rules a data team should agree on.
- The CJW Themes Jumper extension The extension cjw_themes_jumper that cjw_multisite depends on. What it brings (the design starter, the images and files of the starter content, two modules), how its global and siteaccess settings are split, how the…
- Transition from Exponential to another system How a public body moves its content from Exponential to a different content management system - the seven-step export, rich text, files, users, addresses and the guides per target system - and how to run the old and new…
- Two-step sign-in Two-step sign-in for the Exponential sites a host runs: what the sevenx_authentication_2fa extension does, how to switch it on per site or siteaccess, how to require it for administrators, the encryption key for…
- Velocity response cache and HTTP cache For IT teams that need a public-sector site to stay fast and reachable under load. The two caches that answer before Exponential renders a page, what each stores and never stores, how fresh pages are, and how to check…
- Your first site, step by step From an empty directory to a running site you can edit, in ten steps - get the code, install, serve it with Velocity, sign in, add content, change a template and check the result.
- Privacy and data leaving the site What content leaves an Exponential installation when AI is used and how to control it - what Exponential Intelligence sends and never sends, provider region and retention, data policy rules per section and class, images…
- What you have after installing cjw_multisite A tour of a fresh cjw_multisite installation. The addresses and siteaccesses, the content tree with the starter root and start page, tags, layouts, sections, user groups and roles, the settings files written, the…
- Cost control How Exponential Intelligence keeps AI costs visible and capped - an estimated cost for every request from a price table (or the provider's reported cost), the dashboard and log, limits per conversation, session, user…
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