Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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The structure of a CMS total cost of ownership model Updated Markdown page
How to build a total cost of ownership model for a website or intranet on Exponential - the time horizon, the phases, one-off and recurring costs, internal and external costs, risks and exit - so that bids with and…
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TCO worksheet template Updated Markdown page
A copy-and-fill worksheet for the total cost of ownership of a website or intranet on Exponential, with one-off, recurring, internal, risk and exit lines, an assumptions register and a comparison block for several bids…
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Training costs for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
How to estimate the training part of a total cost of ownership - who needs which course, the documented course lengths, free course material under the GNU FDL, and the costs that remain (trainer time, staff time, lab…
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Upgrade and maintenance costs over the life of a site Updated Markdown page
What keeps an Exponential site current - security releases in the 6.0.x line, PHP and operating system updates, upgrades from older lines - which tools reduce the work (upgrade check, ezupdate, maintenance mode), what…
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A worked TCO example with labeled assumptions Updated Markdown page
A worked total cost of ownership calculation for an invented public body's website on Exponential, in neutral currency units, where every number is an example assumption - to show the arithmetic and the structure, never…
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Training in procurement Updated Markdown page
How a public body plans, buys, budgets and measures Exponential training for editors, administrators and its own trainers, built on the free trainer courses of this help.
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Accessible and inclusive training Updated Markdown page
How a public body makes Exponential training accessible to every member of staff - accessible course material, teaching with the accessible admin4 administration, languages and right-to-left, accommodations in class and…
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Budgeting training effort Updated Markdown page
How to estimate the training effort for an Exponential project in a public body from the published course lengths and your own head counts and day rates - a worksheet with formulas and no invented prices.
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Building an in-house training team Updated Markdown page
How a public body trains its own Exponential trainers with the Train the trainer course, builds and keeps a training lab, adapts the free course material and keeps it current, so training continues after the supplier's…
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Buying training from a partner Updated Markdown page
What a public body asks for when it buys Exponential training from a partner or supplier - course outlines, version, lab, accessibility, material rights, assessment - and what the partner program does and does not…
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Measuring training results Updated Markdown page
How a public body checks that Exponential training worked - written tests and practical tasks from the assessments course, feedback, and signs in the site itself such as fewer support requests and fewer content errors…
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Onboarding new staff to Exponential Updated Markdown page
The path a new editor or administrator in a public body follows in the first weeks - account, role, self-study pages, course, supervised first publication and sign-off - so that people who join after go-live are trained…
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Roles to courses Updated Markdown page
A matrix from the roles in a public body (editor, approver, translator, site administrator, system administrator, developer, designer, trainer, manager) to the Exponential trainer courses and modules each role needs…
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A training plan for a public body Updated Markdown page
How a public body plans Exponential training for the whole contract - who needs which course, in which order, at which moment of the project, and how to write that into the procurement - built on the free trainer…
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Records and archiving for public bodies Updated Markdown page
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…
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Archiving old notices Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that publish many time-bound notices (consultations, tenders, announcements) - the ways to take them off the current site while keeping them, using Exponential's moving, sections, object states, hiding…
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Audit records as evidence Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that may need to prove who did what on their website - how to select, verify, export and hand over Exponential audit records (signed bundles, JSON lines with hashes), document the chain of custody, and…
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Form submissions as records Updated Markdown page
For public bodies whose web forms start cases (requests, complaints, applications) - how Exponential stores submissions, exporting them into a case or records system, removing them on schedule, and the audit records of…
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Drafts and old drafts Updated Markdown page
For editors and administrators - what drafts are in Exponential, how editors find and remove their own old drafts, the cleanup settings and cronjob scripts that exist for old drafts, and why drafts are rarely records.
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Exporting content Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that hand content to a records system, an archive or a new platform - the export routes Exponential offers (content object packages, PDF export, the REST API, RSS, form and account CSVs, audit exports)…