Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

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About and Copyright pages This page is for administrators who need to know which Exponential they run, what it is made of and under which licenses, and for extension maintainers who want their extension to show up correctly. Info > About and… Administrators Features
Access and view cache filters for extensions Read this page if you build an extension that changes who may download a file, edit a draft or open a collaboration item, that decides which publications become notifications, or that needs view cache files of its own… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
A clean installation that fits shared hosting and says Exponential This page is for anyone installing Exponential 6.0.15, especially on shared hosting. July and August 2026 made the first run of a new installation smoother. Below is what you now get, in the order you meet it. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
AdminAid: switch user, inspect objects, translate classes This page is for administrators who debug a site. AdminAid is a debugging helper with four tools: Administrators Features
Administration navigation: the top node, tabs and content browse This page is for administrators and editors who find their way around the admin. Between 28 and 30 September 2026 the content structure tree learned to start at the top of the whole content tree, the header tabs got… EditorsAdministrators Features
Administrators approve new editor accounts For: site owners, administrators and editors. Since: 6.0.15. EditorsAdministrators Features
Admin links follow permissions This page is for administrators who set up roles for editors, and for template authors who show admin links. Since 2026-10-02 the admin dashboard, the top menu and the left menus show a link only to a user who can open… EditorsAdministrators Features
AdminNeo: the database manager behind the Database Source Editor This page is for administrators who want to know what the database tool inside the admin can do, or who run it on its own. AdminNeo is a complete database management tool written in PHP, a fork of Adminer. In… Administrators Features
An extension can replace a kernel module This page is for developers who need to change how a whole module works. A module is a set of views behind a URL (content/view, user/login, shop/basket). Until January 2024 the kernel's module won whenever an extension… Developers Features
A package installer that survives big packages This page is for anyone who installs a site package from the browser and has seen it time out. Installing a site package (the content, classes and design of a demo site) is the longest thing the setup wizard and Setup >… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
A useful robots.txt out of the box This page is for site owners who care how search engines crawl their site. A new installation ships a robots.txt at the web root. Before September 2025 you had to write one yourself; now search engines get sensible… Administrators Features
bccie: export collected information to CSV or Excel This page is for site owners who collect form answers (contact forms, polls) and need them in a spreadsheet. bccie ("BC CIE", shown as CIE in the admin menu since 1.1.4) exports the collected information of content… Administrators Features
bcgooglesitemaps: Google XML sitemaps This page is for site owners who want search engines to find all public pages. bcgooglesitemaps generates a sitemap (sitemap.xml protocol) of your public content as a cronjob. It writes one file per siteaccess, usually… Administrators Features
bcwebsitestatistics: Google Analytics tags and order tracking This page is for site owners who measure traffic and shop sales with Google Analytics. bcwebsitestatistics ("BC Website Statistics") adds the analytics script to pages and, through the workflow type ezreceipt, reports… Administrators Features
Benchmark: exp:benchmark This page is for site owners and developers who want to know how fast their installation is, which server answers it faster, and whether a change made it slower. exp:benchmark ships with Exponential 6.0.15. It needs… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
birthday: a birthday datatype This page is for site builders who store people's dates of birth. birthday ("eZ Birthday") provides the datatype ezbirthday. It stores a date of birth so that it can be sorted and searched, and ships the usual class and… Developers Features
Bookmarks of system pages Since Exponential 6.0.15 a bookmark can point to a system page, a page of a module view such as setup/info, exphelp/dashboard, role/view/3, audit/console/(user)/14 or a search (content/search?SearchText=news), as well… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Cache clears that move directories aside This page is for administrators of busy or large sites who clear caches while the site is serving. Clearing a big cache used to delete it file by file inside the request. While that ran, other requests were already… Administrators Features
Change password at next sign-in An administrator can mark a user account so that, after the user's next sign-in, the user must set a new password before doing anything else. The usual case: you create an account for an editor with a temporary… EditorsAdministrators Features
Change settings from the command line: exp:ini This page is for administrators and developers who change INI settings. One command reads and changes settings in every scope: the global override, a siteaccess, an extension, an extension siteaccess. It edits files… AdministratorsDevelopers Features

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