Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

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SOAP calls over HTTPS: certificates of an internal CA Read this page if your code calls a SOAP service over HTTPS with eZSOAPClient, and the service has a certificate that the system's CA bundle does not know, for example one an internal CA of the company issued. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Sort the order list by any column This page is for shop administrators who work with Store > Orders, and for designers who build their own order list. Every column heading of the order list now sorts it. Before, the list could only be sorted by time or… Administrators Features
SQLite database support This page is for anyone who wants to try Exponential, develop on a laptop, run automated tests, or host a small site on a plan that offers no MySQL. With SQLite, a complete Exponential site runs from one file on disk… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
SQLite for Exponential Platform: no database server needed This page is for developers who want an Exponential Platform (the Symfony based platform) running in minutes, without a database server. It is not about the legacy kernel's own SQLite driver: for that, see SQLite… Developers Features
Static cache generator This page is for administrators of sites with mostly public, rarely changing pages who want them served as fast as the web server can send a file. The static cache turns pages into plain files that the web server can… Administrators Features
Static publishing This page is for administrators and developers who want a public copy of an Exponential site that any static host can serve: GitHub Pages, any other git host's pages, or a plain web server with no PHP at all. Static… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Store dashboard and order statuses This page is for shop owners and administrators who run the built-in shop. The Store tab of the administration now opens a dashboard (shop/dashboard) that shows on one page what used to need a guide to piece together… Administrators Features
swark: template operators and workflow events that are missing This page is for template authors and site builders. swark adds many template operators and two workflow events that are needed often but are missing in the kernel. It comes from Seeds Consulting AS (2008) and Brookins… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Switching designs on a front siteaccess A public siteaccess can offer its visitors more than one design and let them switch between them with one click, for example a classic design and a modern one of the same content. Every visitor can switch: no account… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
syndication: share content between installations This page is for administrators who run several Exponential installations that share content. syndication exports part of the content tree of one site as a feed, and another site imports it, kept in step by cron. It… Administrators Features
Template editor: create, order and edit overrides without touching INI files This page is for designers and site builders who change how a class, a node or a section looks. A template override says "for this class, this node or this section, use this template instead of the default". Exponential… Developers Features
Template path comments: see which template wrote which markup This page is for template developers who need to find the .tpl file behind a piece of HTML. With template path comments switched on, every rendered template is wrapped in two HTML comments that name it, the same help… Developers Features
The audit trail: who did what, and proof that nobody changed the record This page is for administrators and security officers who need to know who did what on a site, and to prove that the record was not changed. Exponential 6.0.15 records security-relevant events in a tamper-evident log… Administrators Features
The content checks: unreferenced objects, broken relations and missing files Read this page if you tidy up a content tree (images and files nobody uses any more) or look for published pages that link to or embed something a visitor cannot reach; and if you decide who may do that. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The Exp Debug bar This page is for developers and administrators who debug a page: slow, wrong, or full of warnings. The classic debug report at the bottom of a page became a pinned bar with tabs, a live summary, and controls for the… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The Exponential Platform administration interface This page is for developers and administrators of Exponential Platform v5 (the Symfony based platform) and its older 2.x and 3.x lines. It describes the administration interface editors use at /adminui/: content tree… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopers Features
The GraphQL API: ask the content for exactly the fields a page needs This page is for developers who build a front end, an app, a static site generator or an integration on the content of an Exponential installation, and for administrators who switch the API on and decide what it shows… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The grouped country list Every country select of Exponential shows the countries in two groups: AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The help system: the documentation inside the administration Read this page if you look for help while working in the administration, if you decide who may read the help, or if you write documentation (in doc/ or in an extension) that should show up in it. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The mail layout: every mail as HTML with a plain-text part Since 6.0.15 every mail Exponential sends is an HTML mail with a plain-text part (multipart/alternative) in one shared layout: the site's name in a dark header, a heading, a short text, one button where there is a link… AdministratorsDevelopers Features

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