- Documentation sites: start here For product documentation, knowledge bases and manuals on Exponential: structure, review and release states, search, translations, PDF and e-book exports, and the routines that keep documentation correct.
- Donor and volunteer data protection Protecting the personal data of donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and subscribers on a non-profit's Exponential site - where it lives (form submissions, user accounts, orders, newsletter subscriptions, logs, exports…
- Double opt-in and consent How subscriptions become valid in cjw_newsletter (double opt-in and statuses), what the subscribe form must say, how consent is recorded by the kernel's e-mail preferences, importing existing lists only with consent…
- Downloading a package by hand How to fetch an .ezpkg from the package server yourself, look inside it with tar, check that it is complete and what you expect, and import it with ezpm, the administration's upload page or the setup wizard.
- Error digest and log health The two summary pages of the log viewer - the error digest that groups and counts the last day's distinct errors per log, and log health with disk use, growth, write permissions and rotation settings - and how to use…
- Exponential 6 as the base of a bundle What a bundle built on Exponential 6 already contains before you add anything - the kernel, the extensions the root composer.json requires, Velocity, the default theme and the site packages the installers offer - and…
- eZDB: the database layer The eZDB methods extensions use - arrayQuery() with offset and limit, query(), escapeString(), generateSQLINStatement(), transactions, lastSerialID(), portable SQL helpers - and safe values.
- FAQ: privacy and data protection Answers to the privacy questions public bodies ask about Exponential - GDPR, cookies, consent, data sent to third parties, access and erasure requests, logs and retention, AI features - backed by the privacy standards…
- Feature highlights mapped to customer needs The features of Exponential 6.0.x mapped to the needs customers bring: what to say, where to show it in the administration, the documentation that proves it, and the limits to state honestly.
- File and settings backups For operations teams in public bodies that back up the file half of an Exponential site. Which directories hold uploads, settings and the audit trail, how to include per-site storage and the cluster mount, owners and…
- Following Exponential releases Where to watch for changes that affect a theme - the changelogs in doc/changelogs, release tags and GitHub releases of the repository, the upgrade notes in doc/eng-us/bc, project news and RSS - and a weekly routine.
- Forms and member feedback How a small group collects contact requests, feedback, poll answers and registrations on Exponential - the shipped feedback form, the form, feedback and poll types, star ratings, who receives and reads submissions, spam…
- Giving a contractor access Step by step for administrators: create a personal account for a contractor's employee in the right external user group, with no self-registration, a recorded end date, two-step sign-in if required, and a first-sign-in…
- Giving demos as an advocate How a community advocate prepares and gives a demonstration of Exponential - on an installation you control, with a goal, a short path through the product, sources ready and a recovery plan - with a preparation…
- Government cloud and hosting models Which hosting models Exponential is documented for (shared, VPS, dedicated, containers, Kubernetes, platform as a service, managed) with the project's own support tiers, and the questions a public body asks before…
- Health checks and monitoring What a business should monitor on an Exponential site, from outside and from inside, which shipped commands and pages give a clear healthy or unhealthy answer, and how to route alerts to a person.
- Hosting choices How a non-technical person gets an Exponential site running without doing the technical part - the three ways to get a site, what a host does, what to ask before signing, how to compare costs, the domain name and…
- Intranet search How staff find pages and documents on an Exponential intranet - the built-in search engine, what it respects, when Solr through ezfind is worth running, searching inside files, tags, and using search statistics to find…
- Keeping a fork in sync with its source Bring the original's new commits into your fork with git fetch and merge or rebase, resolve conflicts, and keep your own changes small so syncing stays easy - with the commands and a routine.
- Keeping the help up to date: reviews, e-books and DITA The list of help topics overdue for review, the e-books that are rebuilt when a topic is released, and the DITA export of the help.
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