Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Where do I see my items that wait for approval? Updated Markdown page
Dashboard > My pending items lists the versions you sent for publishing that an approval workflow holds; Collaboration shows the approver's answer and any messages.
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Which cache do I clear, and how? Updated Markdown page
Usually none - Exponential renews caches on its own; when a page shows old content clear the content cache, after a template change the template caches, after a settings change the INI caches, from Clear cache in the…
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Why does search not find an item I know exists? Updated Markdown page
Search finds only published versions of items you may read, whole words, and only fields marked as searchable; drafts, the trash, unsearchable fields, a search scope that is too narrow, and indexing that runs later are…
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Images, media and uploads Updated Markdown page
The media library, uploading one file or many at once, ZIP files, alternative text, and what to do after the upload.
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Migrations Updated Markdown page
The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the same order, with a caption…
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Migrations: a tour of Setup > Migrations Updated Markdown page
A guided tour of every screen of Setup > Migrations with screenshots - the tabs, what each one is for, the dashboard block, the Recording bar and the website sidebar - and a table that says which page to open for each…
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Migrations: add a remote step by step Updated Markdown page
Setup > Migrations > Remotes step by step with screenshots. Prepare the secret, add a remote (a target host such as dev, stage or production) with the five steps of the wizard - the remote, the connection, the…
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Migration commands Updated Markdown page
Every exp:migration command in one table - what it does, when to use it, its most used options and a link to its generated reference page - with the options all of them share, the exit codes, the machine output and the…
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Migrations: deploy step by step Updated Markdown page
Setup > Migrations > Deploys step by step with screenshots. Choose remotes or groups, choose Send and run, Transfer only or Staged, check with Preflight only, deploy, follow every remote live, read the report, approve…
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Migrations in the website sidebar Updated Markdown page
The Migrations panel of the website sidebar (expwt) on the site's own pages with a screenshot - Record my changes, the run going on, the failed and pending migrations, the orphans, the last run and the latest deploys…
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Migrations: frequently asked questions Updated Markdown page
Short answers to the questions people ask about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - what they are for, how they differ from upgrades and site moves, how runs, captions, rollback, environments, teams, CI, engines…
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Migrations: generating migrations Updated Markdown page
The ways to get a migration without writing it by hand - from a recording and in the editor in the administration, and on the console from content, classes, roles, sections and settings that exist, from the difference…
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Migrations in the administration Updated Markdown page
Where the migrations of an installation show in the administration - Setup > Migrations, the dashboard block and the website sidebar - which page explains what, and which policy each needs.
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Migrations for administrators Updated Markdown page
For administrators who apply migrations that developers wrote - reading the status and the dashboard block, the routine before and after a deploy, running from Setup > Migrations or the console, what a failure looks…
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Migrations versus migrating a site Updated Markdown page
The word migration means two different jobs in the Exponential documentation - migrations (schema and content changes of one site, written as files and applied with exp:migration:migrate) and migrating a site (moving or…
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Migrations: policies, views and events Updated Markdown page
The policies of the module migration and which views check them, the seven views with their addresses, the dashboard block and its fetch function, the ezpEvent events a run sends with their parameters, and the audit…
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Migration recipes Updated Markdown page
Twenty-five task pages for migrations in Exponential 6.0.15, each with what you will have at the end, the steps and their output, the complete PHP migration, how to check it, how to take it back and the next step - from…
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Add a class attribute Updated Markdown page
A migration that adds the attribute subtitle to the class news_article at the right position, gives every existing object the new field, and removes attribute and values again in down().
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Add a column or an index Updated Markdown page
A migration that adds a column with a default and an index to an existing table on every SQL engine, through the engine's own schema handler, checks the catalog first so it completes a half-applied change, and drops…
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Add a database table Updated Markdown page
A migration that creates a table of the site's own on every engine from a share/db_schema.dba definition, writes a first row, and drops it again in down() - with the dry run, the run, the checks and the rollback.