- Databases and users Creating the database and its user for an Exponential site, engine by engine in the official order (SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL), with the privileges each driver needs, the character set, how…
- Documentation sources: where to read about Exponential Every documentation source the Documentation page of exponential.earth lists, with what each covers, how current it is and how to use it next to this help - the documentation website, the free books, the articles on…
- Downloads and permissions Who may download which document on an Exponential site - content/download checks read access, sections and roles for restricted documents, stored PDF exports that are public, images served directly, hiding and removing…
- Emergency publishing bypass How a public body can publish urgent information (an emergency notice, a closure, a public safety message) without waiting for the normal approval, while keeping the bypass small, deliberate and on the record in the…
- Fallback rules for untranslated content What a visitor of one language version sees when a page is not translated yet, how SiteLanguageList order, ShowUntranslatedObjects and always available decide it, and the policy choices a public body makes for each…
- FAQ: languages and right-to-left Answers to the language questions public bodies ask about Exponential - multilingual content, official and minority languages, right-to-left scripts, the administration in other languages, translation workflow, missing…
- Hiding content For editors and administrators - what hiding a node does in Exponential (visitors no longer see it or anything below it, it stays in the tree and can be revealed), how the administration shows hidden items, scheduled…
- Intranet checklist A launch and review checklist for a staff intranet built with Exponential: access, sections and roles, sign-in, sessions, network, search engines, audit, leavers and content ownership.
- Keeping public addresses working after an exit Why the public addresses of a government site must keep working after a change of system, where Exponential keeps every address (main aliases in the site archive, other aliases and wildcards in two tables), how to build…
- Learning Exponential: the chapters of the Learning book, brought up to date Help pages adapted from the free book Learning eZ publish, chapter by chapter, with every step, setting and label checked against Exponential 6. Start here for the reading order.
- Logs, caches and operations per site How to run many department sites on one installation without them stepping on each other: logs per site, caches on their own storage, INI cache per site, cronjobs per siteaccess, maintenance mode, and backups.
- Measuring and improving What Exponential can tell you about how service pages are used - search statistics, view counts, a "was this useful" form, request logs - what needs an analytics service, and how to measure with respect for visitors'…
- MongoDB for hosts MongoDB as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the PHP, server and extension versions it needs, the Composer library, the database user, installing, the indexes, the documented limits…
- Monitoring overview Everything Exponential offers for watching a hosted site (status commands with exit codes, the system information health checks, log health and the error digest, audit alerts, Velocity's health and metrics endpoints)…
- Notifications for staff How staff are told about new and changed content on an Exponential intranet - following items, digests, collaboration mail for approvers, the e-mail preferences gate, the notification cronjob and status page, and how to…
- Offline and repeat visits The optional browser navigation cache of Exponential (the service worker /index.js) explained for businesses - faster repeat page visits, the strict rules about what it never stores, the "second view" effect after…
- Order statuses Choosing and writing down your store's status path in Exponential - the seventeen shipped statuses in plain words, which ones your team uses, a status path worksheet, custom statuses, and reviewing the path once a year.
- Owners of several sites: start here For organizations that run several sites, brands or regions from one Exponential installation: what is shared and what is per site, roles per site, cross-site links, staging and production, and the decisions that keep…
- Past events and the archive What to do with events after they happen on an Exponential site - keep them in a yearly archive, hide them automatically with hide.php on the To Time, remove sign-up data, and publish outcomes such as recordings and…
- PHP and database upgrades Upgrading the platform under Exponential - PHP versions supported, database server versions, the order of steps, staging, and what an in-house IT team or a government cloud provider must coordinate.
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