Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Two-step sign-in for staff Updated Markdown page
How to require a second step at sign-in for staff with the sevenx_authentication_2fa extension (authenticator app or e-mail code): turning it on, enforcing it, protecting the secrets, lost phones, and combining it with…
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Maps Updated Markdown page
The maps part of building a public site with Exponential, limited to what really exists: the ezgmaplocation location field with Google Maps, distance search, privacy, and publishing locations as open data; with the…
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Adding a service point location Updated Markdown page
For editors: how to give a service point, office or facility page its location with the GMap Location field, check it, and write the address so it is useful with and without a map.
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Finding nearby service points Updated Markdown page
How a site builder lists the service points nearest to a place with the ezgmlLocationFilter of ezgmaplocation: the fetch, its distance parameter, accuracy (bounding box versus true distance), and how to offer it to…
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Map locations with ezgmaplocation Updated Markdown page
How to set up the ezgmaplocation extension so a content class (for example a service point) gets a location field: activation, the database table per engine, the API key setting, the Content Security Policy, and adding…
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Maps and privacy Updated Markdown page
What happens to visitor and editor data when a public site shows Google maps through ezgmaplocation, how to decide, what to put in the privacy notice and the Content Security Policy, and how to run the location features…
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Publishing locations as open data Updated Markdown page
How to publish the service points or facilities kept as content in Exponential as an open dataset of locations (CSV with coordinates), since no GeoJSON or geo web service ships, and what to check before publishing.
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What exists for maps Updated Markdown page
An honest inventory of map features for public sites built with Exponential: one map location datatype (ezgmaplocation, Google Maps), a distance filter, and nothing else; no GIS, no self-hosted map tiles, no geodata…
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Multisite Updated Markdown page
The multisite part of building with Exponential for public bodies: one installation for many departments, adding a department site, per-site designs and settings, shared content, cross-site links, roles per department…
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Adding a department site Updated Markdown page
Step by step for administrators: give a department its own site in an existing Exponential installation, with a content folder, a siteaccess with its root node and design, registration and host matching, DNS and…
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Editors and roles per department Updated Markdown page
How to let each department's editors work only on their own site in a shared Exponential installation: roles limited by subtree or section, one or several administration siteaccesses, shared media, and review of access.
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Links between department sites Updated Markdown page
Why links from one department site to content of another can point into the wrong site, how the ezurlmultisite extension makes ezurl produce the address of the site that serves the content, and how to configure and…
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Logs, caches and operations per site Updated Markdown page
How to run many department sites on one installation without them stepping on each other: logs per site, caches on their own storage, INI cache per site, cronjobs per siteaccess, maintenance mode, and backups.
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One installation, many departments Updated Markdown page
How a public body runs the sites of several departments, agencies or programs from one Exponential installation: the shapes a multisite can take, what is shared and what is separate, and the trade-offs to write into the…
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Per-site designs Updated Markdown page
How each department site of a multisite Exponential installation gets its own look while sharing a common base: SiteDesign and the design fallback chain, a shared government base design, per-department overrides, and…
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Per-site settings in extensions Updated Markdown page
How each department site keeps its settings, design and templates together in one extension that applies only while its siteaccesses run (settings/override inside the extension), so a multisite installation stays…
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Shared content across sites Updated Markdown page
How one piece of content (a contact page, a policy, a news item) appears on several department sites of one Exponential installation without copying: several locations, object relations and embeds, shared folders, and…
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News and alerts Updated Markdown page
Index of the guides for publishing news, press releases and urgent notices on a public-sector Exponential site, and for reaching people with RSS, notifications and newsletters, archiving old items and describing pages…
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Archive and expiry Updated Markdown page
What happens to old news and notices on an Exponential site - automatic hiding with hide.php, moving to the trash with unpublish.php, archives by year, labels with object states, and what to keep for the record.
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Metadata and social sharing Updated Markdown page
How to give news and notices good titles, descriptions and sharing images with the xrowmetadata datatype in Exponential, show them in the page head, and offer sharing without third-party trackers on a public-sector site.