Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Backups from the administration with git_manager Updated Markdown page
For site administrators in public bodies who have no shell on the server. How the git_manager extension's Setup > Backup page creates database and file backups, encrypts them, and makes sanitized dumps; its limits…
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Backups per database engine Updated Markdown page
For database and operations teams in public bodies. The backup and restore command of each database Exponential supports, in the official order, how to check a copy, and how to fit the engine's backup into the tooling…
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A disaster recovery plan Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that must document how a website comes back after a disaster: loss of a server, a data center, the database or the data itself. The scenarios, the parts of a plan, an outline you can copy, and the…
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File and settings backups Updated Markdown page
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…
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Keys and secrets in backups Updated Markdown page
For security and operations teams in public bodies. Which small files of an Exponential site hold keys that cannot be recreated (audit signing keys, the mail preference secret, certificate keys), what breaks if they are…
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Offsite and encrypted copies Updated Markdown page
For public-sector IT and security teams. Why backups of an Exponential site must leave the server and be encrypted, where copies may go under data location rules, how to encrypt them with the tools the sources name, and…
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Restore testing Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that must prove their backups work. Why a backup that was never restored is a hope, how often to test, what a restore test checks, how to record the result as evidence for auditors and continuity…
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Restoring to a test server Updated Markdown page
For operations teams in public bodies running a restore test or preparing a copy for acceptance testing. The step-by-step restore of an Exponential site onto a separate machine, with mail stopped, no cronjobs, network…
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RPO and RTO as decisions Updated Markdown page
For service owners and continuity planners in public bodies. What a recovery point objective and a recovery time objective mean for an Exponential site, why they are organizational decisions and not properties of the…
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What to back up Updated Markdown page
For public-sector IT teams that define the backup of an Exponential site. The two halves of every backup (database and files), the files that hold keys which cannot be recreated, what can be left out, and how to take a…
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Editorial workflows Updated Markdown page
Index of the pages on approvals and editorial governance for public-sector Exponential sites - approval workflows, the Approve event, the collaboration inbox, drafts and pending items, the two-person rule, legal and…
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Approval workflows overview Updated Markdown page
How approval before publishing works in Exponential - workflows, the Approve event, triggers, the collaboration inbox, pending versions and the workflow cronjob - explained for public bodies that need a documented…
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The collaboration inbox Updated Markdown page
Where approvers find approval requests (My account > Collaboration and My pending items), how they approve or deny with a comment, what the author sees, and the rights an approver needs to open the inbox at all.
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Content ownership Updated Markdown page
The difference between the technical owner of a content object in Exponential and the organizational owner a public body names for each page, how to record the second, and how to hand content over when people or…
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Drafts and pending items Updated Markdown page
How editors and web managers keep track of unfinished and waiting work with My drafts and My pending items, clean up old drafts, and find out what holds a version - with the rules that keep one person's drafts private.
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Editorial calendar Updated Markdown page
Planning publication in a public body - an editorial calendar is a practice, not an Exponential module; this page shows which dates the system can act on (Wait until date, hide and unpublish dates) and how a calendar…
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Emergency publishing bypass Updated Markdown page
How a public body can publish urgent information (an emergency notice, a closure, a public safety message) without waiting for the normal approval, while keeping the bypass small, deliberate and on the record in the…
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Legal review step Updated Markdown page
Two ways to add a legal or compliance review to publishing in Exponential - a second approvers' group in the workflow, or an object state "Legal cleared" that roles respect - with the trade-offs and what neither of them…
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Multilingual approvals Updated Markdown page
How to approve content in several official languages - one approval for all languages, or approvers per language with the Affected languages field and Language-limited roles - and how translators and approvers fit the…
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Review dates with object states Updated Markdown page
Exponential has no built-in content review date; this page shows what does exist - object states for a review stage, date fields with the hide cronjob, the Wait until date event - and how public bodies combine them into…