- Records and archiving for public bodies The records and archiving section of the Governments help - versions and content history, archiving old notices with folders, sections, object states and hiding, the trash, retention schedules, exporting content…
- Regional and state government Index for states, provinces, regions and counties planning an Exponential site - what they publish, the content model, structure and roles, requirements, a 90-day plan and shared services for the municipalities of a…
- Remote services (expservices) What the remote services of Exponential (the expservices extension) mean for a site owner - the administration's functions as named HTTP services for scripts, apps and portals, the same permissions as the person…
- Requirements for a public-sector CMS The index of the requirements pages - how to write verifiable requirements for a public-sector CMS and requirement wording for functions, accessibility, security, privacy, languages, hosting, integration, operations…
- Runbooks for hosts: overview Step-by-step runbooks for the incidents a host meets with Exponential sites: site down, slow site, disk full, restore from backup, compromised site, PHP upgrade, certificate expiry and Velocity that will not start.
- Running Exponential in the public sector The operations part of the Governments section: hosting, availability, backups, monitoring, incidents, upgrades and change, people and permissions, and editorial workflows, written for in-house IT teams and the managers…
- Schools and universities Index for public schools, school districts, colleges and universities planning an Exponential site - what they publish, content model, structure and roles, requirements, a 90-day plan, and intranets with department…
- Search The search part of building a public site with Exponential: the built-in engine, searchable fields, the search box and results page, searching inside documents, Solr with ezfind, elevation and synonyms, and search…
- Searching Find content in the administration with the quick search, the search scope and the filters of the search page, open an item by its number or address, and search the site.
- Security basics for businesses The ten security basics a business site on Exponential needs, what the software already does for each, what you must decide, and who in a small organization usually does it. Not legal advice.
- Security for hosts: overview The security section of the hosting help: what Exponential protects by default, what a host must add on the server, and one page per topic, from hardening, TLS and the Content Security Policy to isolation between…
- Security for public bodies The security section of the Governments help - Exponential's documented security posture (OWASP Top 10, ASVS, CSP), hardening, the audit trail, two-step sign-in, CSP enforcement, request-shield, passwords and sessions…
- Site package basics The overview of the basics part of the site packages help. What a site installer package is, the .ezpkg file and package.xml, package types, install items, dependencies, install scripts, and how the setup wizard, the…
- Small group site planning How a club, society or volunteer-run group plans a site on Exponential that survives changing volunteers - what the site is for, the few pages it needs, the shipped classes that cover them, who does what, where the…
- SQLite maintenance: ANALYZE, VACUUM and the WAL file The routine maintenance of an Exponential SQLite database - statistics with ANALYZE and PRAGMA optimize, compaction with VACUUM in maintenance mode, keeping the WAL file in check with journal_size_limit and a TRUNCATE…
- Store planning for small businesses The decisions a small business makes before an Exponential store is set up - what to sell, where, in which currencies, how customers pay and receive goods, and who runs the orders.
- Taking over a site What a new owner or site manager does in the first weeks after inheriting an Exponential site - find out what it runs, secure access, confirm backups, read the history, map the people, and decide what to fix first.
- Tasks for sites and languages Step-by-step tasks for public bodies on multilingual sites, department sites, intranets and extranets, open data, transparency publishing, search, newsletters and maps in Exponential, each with prerequisites, steps…
- Tender templates The index of tender and contract clause templates for buying an Exponential-based website and its services - an RFP skeleton and clauses for accessibility, security, patching, privacy, open source, custom work, hosting…
- The extension directory layout Every folder and file name an extension can have, what the kernel does with it, which setting points the kernel there, and how many of the installed extensions use it - the map for the rest of Part 3.
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