- Catalog search How readers find records in a catalog on Exponential - the built-in search engine, advanced search, what gets indexed, searching inside files, search statistics, and when to add Solr through the ezfind extension, with…
- Change management and advisory boards How to run Exponential under a public body's change management - which changes go to a change advisory board, which are standard or routine, what evidence the platform gives for each (dry runs, upgrade check, audit…
- Checkout and workflows The Exponential checkout from the inside - the four shop operations and their trigger points, the temporary order, and the workflow events that add shipping, take payment or branch by condition - with a page for each…
- Choosing a partner level for reselling Which Exponential Partner level a reseller needs for each reseller model, with the published prices, the benefits that matter for reselling (OEM resale, white label, pre-sales support, referrals, discounts), the revenue…
- Choosing credentials for an integration The credentials Exponential accepts from other systems - OAuth 2.0 tokens, personal API keys, expservices tokens, HTTP basic authentication, session sign-in - what each is for, how it is limited, and how to store and…
- Choosing hosting, database and operating system Decision tables for where an Exponential site runs: the six supported databases in order, operating system tiers, Velocity, FrankenPHP, Apache or nginx, install methods and a decision record.
- Community channels: where Exponential people meet Every place the Exponential community meets, from the community page of exponential.earth - the Share Exponential forums, Telegram, Discord and Slack, GitHub and the issue trackers, Exponential Projects, eZpedia, the…
- Consent and forms How Exponential handles consent for e-mail (essential and optional mail, double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, the consent log and the suppression list), what newsletters add, and how to run contact and lead forms that…
- Containers and orchestration For platform teams in public bodies that run Exponential in Docker, Podman or Kubernetes. What the sources say about containers, what must be on a persistent volume, the one-writer rule for SQLite, and how a container…
- Content Security Policy The Content Security Policy as a host meets it: the shipped report-only policy on administration siteaccesses, the csp/report collector and csp.log, how to move a customer's siteaccess to enforce, what usually breaks…
- Contributing documentation How to improve the Exponential documentation and this help - fixing a page with Edit on GitHub, writing a new help page with front matter, style rules, sources, the GFDL, and other places to write (eZpedia…
- Cost of ownership for owners Tracking what a running Exponential site really costs - the cost lines an owner pays after launch, where each one is billed, a yearly cost register, the costs that creep in unnoticed, and the questions that keep…
- Currencies, dates and formats How Exponential presents dates, numbers and amounts the way each market expects, and what the built-in shop does with currencies, exchange rates, rounding, VAT by country and country lists - with the questions to settle…
- Database unreachable Runbook for "We'll be right back" pages caused by a database Exponential cannot reach - check the server, the credentials, connections and disk per engine, switch to a standby if you run one, and recover with caches…
- Data export formats for leaving or changing supplier Every way to get data out of an Exponential site and the format each one writes - the xrowextract site archive, CSV/XML/JSON per class, packages (.ezpkg), database dumps, storage files, layouts, form submissions…
- Deploying a site For CMS developers, getting a site from the repository onto staging and live and shipping changes safely. It covers choosing the web server, what a deployment carries, settings per environment, exp:velocity deploy for…
- Design extensions How an extension carries a design: the DesignExtensions[] setting, the folder it points to, activating the extension for all or some siteaccesses, and what else a theme extension usually ships.
- Designing a dataset class For site builders in a public body who need dataset pages: a content class "Dataset" with a "Distribution" child class, built in Setup > Classes from the datatypes Exponential ships, with identifiers that map to DCAT…
- Designing the front page How theme designers approach the front page of an Exponential site - the three ways a front page is built (a layout, a class of its own, an override of the root node), how to choose with the client, designing for…
- DirectAdmin What the Exponential sources say about DirectAdmin hosts (tier 3, expected to work, in the same row as cPanel), the Exponential requirements translated into generic panel tasks, the questions to answer about your…
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