Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Give contractors extranet access Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: give one contractor's staff access to their own project area only, with a user group, a section, a limited role assignment and personal accounts, and record the end date.
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Hide content after a closing date Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: hide consultations, vacancies or calls automatically when their closing date passes, with the hide.php cronjob and content.ini HideSettings, keeping the content as a record (unlike…
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Limit a translator to one language Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: create a role whose content policies are limited by Language, assign it to a translators' group, and test it with a test account.
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Link from one department site to another Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: make links from one site to content of another site in the same installation point to the right host, with the ezurlmultisite settings, and check them.
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Make shared items always available Updated Markdown page
Task for editors and administrators: mark images, media folders, user accounts and single-language documents as always available so every language site shows them.
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Publish a dataset with a stable URL Updated Markdown page
Task for data publishers: create a dataset page with its files in the catalog, give it a short permanent alias to cite, and check the addresses as a visitor.
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Publish a feed of new datasets Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: create an RSS 2.0 or Atom export of the data catalog in Setup > RSS, map the dataset fields, and link the feed from the catalog page.
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Publish a FOI response with redactions checked Updated Markdown page
Task for editors: check the redactions of released documents outside Exponential, then publish the response as a disclosure log entry with its files, have it approved, and verify it signed out.
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Publish meeting agenda and minutes in two languages Updated Markdown page
Task for clerks and editors: publish a council or committee meeting with its agenda and later its minutes in both official languages, with translated meeting objects and one document per language.
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Publish the disclosure log Updated Markdown page
Task for site builders and editors: set up the public disclosure log (a class for entries without requester data, a folder per year, a list view, a feed) and publish the first entry.
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Raise the version history limit for records Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: keep more versions of record-relevant classes (decisions, disclosure entries, meetings) than the default 45, with VersionHistoryClass in content.ini, and check the effect.
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Redirect the start page to the visitor's language Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: make www.example.gov/ send each visitor once to the language their browser asks for, with DefaultHostUriMatchMapItems, and test it with curl.
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Rehearse a newsletter with the file transport Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: run a whole newsletter cycle (subscribe, confirm, send, unsubscribe) with cjw_newsletter writing mail to .eml files, so no real person gets mail.
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Remove a wrong translation safely Updated Markdown page
Task for lead editors: move an item created in the wrong language into the right one (translate, set main, remove), knowing that removing a translation deletes it in every version.
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Review and disable stale contractor accounts Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: once a month, find external accounts that were never used or not used for a long time in Users > Check user accounts, export the list for project managers, and disable what is no longer needed.
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Schedule a release for a set time Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators and editors: publish a page (a statistics release, an agenda) at a set date and time with the Wait until date workflow event, and know how precise the timing is.
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Set up a department subsite Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: add a site for a department to an existing installation, with its own folder, siteaccess, host and administration link.
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Set up a FOI request form Updated Markdown page
Task for site builders: build an online request form with the information collector, mail each request to the FOI team mailbox, redirect to a thank-you page, and test it.
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Set up a staff intranet siteaccess Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: create an intranet siteaccess that requires sign-in for every page, with its own folder in a section visitors cannot read and a Staff role, and test it from outside and inside.
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Set up a translation approval workflow Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: have translations into one language approved by that language's reviewers before they are published, with an Approve event limited to Affected languages, connected to Before publishing content.