Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Set up search for documents Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: make the text inside PDF (and Word) documents searchable with the binaryfile.ini text extraction handlers and an installed extraction tool, then rebuild the index and test.
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Set up two-step sign-in for staff Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: turn on two-step sign-in (authenticator app or e-mail code) with sevenx_authentication_2fa, require it for staff, protect the secrets, and test it.
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Share a page between two sites Updated Markdown page
Task for editors: make one page appear on two department sites without copying it, by giving it a second location, so a correction reaches both sites at once.
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Switch the administration to another language Updated Markdown page
Task for staff: choose the language of the administration's menus and buttons for yourself with the Interface language list, and know what changes and what does not.
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Test translations with Lorem Ipsum Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators and site builders: add the test language Lorem Ipsum (qlo-ZZ), fill translations with exp:loremipsum, check fallbacks and untranslated texts on a test siteaccess, and remove it again.
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Translate a page into the second official language Updated Markdown page
Task for editors and translators: add the translation of an existing page in the second official language, starting from the first language, publish it and check it on that language's site.
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Turn on search statistics Updated Markdown page
Task for administrators: record what visitors search for on a public siteaccess (LogSearchStats), read Setup > Search statistics, and reset the phrases on a schedule because they can contain personal data.
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Transparency and freedom of information Updated Markdown page
The transparency section of the government help: proactive disclosure, publication schemes, disclosure logs, request forms, redaction, meetings, decisions, spending, approval, version history and the audit trail in…
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A request form with the information collector Updated Markdown page
Build an online form for requests for information in Exponential with the information collector: the class, the fields to ask for and not to ask for, mail to the FOI team, the confirmation page, spam protection and…
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Approval before publishing Updated Markdown page
How to make every transparency publication wait for a second person's approval in Exponential: the Approve workflow event, the trigger, the cronjob, and how approvers and authors see pending items.
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Decision registers Updated Markdown page
How to keep a public register of decisions (resolutions, delegated decisions, executive decisions) as content in Exponential, with stable references, links to meetings and documents, states for the decision's life, and…
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Disclosure logs Updated Markdown page
How to publish a disclosure log, the public list of information released in answer to requests, in Exponential: a class for log entries without requester data, a list page, a feed, and the order of steps so nothing…
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Handling requests from collected information Updated Markdown page
How a FOI team reads, exports and removes request submissions in Setup > Collected information, how to move them into a case process, and how long to keep them.
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Keeping versions longer Updated Markdown page
For administrators: how many versions Exponential keeps (content.ini VersionManagement), how to raise the limit for record-relevant classes, what cleanupversions.php does, and who should be allowed to remove versions.
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Meeting records, agendas and minutes Updated Markdown page
How to publish the meetings of councils, boards and committees with Exponential: a meeting class with date, body, agenda, papers and minutes, a structure per body and year, timely publication, corrections and language…
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PDF and document formats for disclosures Updated Markdown page
Which formats to use for published responses, reports and registers, how Exponential's PDF export turns a part of the content tree into one PDF, and the accessibility and machine-readability points to check.
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Proactive disclosure Updated Markdown page
How a public body publishes information before anyone asks for it, using Exponential: deciding what to publish, a structure for it, regular publishing with roles and approval, and keeping it current.
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Publication schemes Updated Markdown page
How to build a publication scheme (a guide to the information a public body publishes) in Exponential, as one page per class of information with links, owners and formats, and how to keep it accurate.
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Publishing a FOI response Updated Markdown page
Step by step for editors: turn an answered request for information into a public disclosure log entry with its redacted documents, have it approved, check it as a visitor, and link it from related pages.
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Redaction is a manual step Updated Markdown page
Exponential has no redaction tool. This page explains where redaction happens (in the program that made the document), the common ways it fails, a checking routine before upload, and how Exponential's versions keep an…