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  • User registration (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:18 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Where a site allows it, visitors create their own account on the public site: to read members-only pages, to write comments or to take part in forums. This page shows the registration from the visitor's side and what the…
  • Use (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Once ezmbpaex is set up (see Setting up password expiry ), password expiry is managed in the Users tab, on the user groups and the user accounts. This page explains the field it adds, what users see when their password e…
  • Forgot Password Function (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    A user who forgot the password sets a new one through a link sent by e-mail. Exponential 6 has this built in, on the public site and in the administration. The extension ezmbpaex brings a page of its own for sites that u…
  • Two-step sign-in (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    With two-step sign-in your password alone no longer opens your account: after the password, the sign-in asks for a 6-digit code from an app on your phone or from an e-mail. Someone who learns your password still cannot g…
  • Creating a protected area (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Everything published in the content tree is public by default: visitors who are not signed in may read what the Anonymous role allows, which on a standard site is the section Standard (and the images and files in Media )…
  • Roles and policies: who may do what (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    What a user may do in Exponential is decided by roles . This page explains how roles work, how to read what a role allows, how to create one and how to give it to users. It is for administrators; everyone else can read t…
  • Managing users (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    This page is for administrators, and for editors who look after the accounts of the site's members. It covers the daily work with accounts: adding a user or a group, changing an account, moving it to another group, and d…
  • Finding content (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The quickest way to an item is often to search for it. The administration has three tools: the search field in the header for words, the search page with its filters, and the Content finder when you know a number, a path…
  • The help center (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Exponential 6 brings its documentation with it. The help center in the administration shows the help pages of the installation's own version: a user manual with one page per task, guides for each audience, the documentat…
  • Using bookmarks (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Bookmarks take you back to the items you work on in one click. They are personal: nobody else sees them, and removing a bookmark never changes the item. They are not the bookmarks of your web browser; they live in your a…
  • The "Content structure" tab (11403666) (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The Content structure tab is where you will spend most of your time: it shows the content tree of the site, and the page of each item with everything you can do with it. The Media and Users tabs work the same way for the…
  • The Dashboard tab (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:12 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The Dashboard is your own start page in the administration and the first page after signing in. It shows what is waiting for you, what happened on the site lately, and leads to your drafts, pending items, bookmarks and s…
  • Managing User Profiles (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    How members keep their own profile up to date on the site, and how editors look after members' accounts, is now described in Accounts of site members . Your own account in the administration is described in Your account…
  • The View Interface (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The view of an item and of its versions is now described in The Content structure tab , under The tabs . Seeing a draft as the site will show it, at the width of a phone, a tablet or a desktop, is explained in Previewing…
  • Update Children feature (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The Update children feature of the password expiry extension ezmbpaex, which passes a user group's password expiry values on to the users and groups below it, is now described on the page Use , under Values per group: Up…
  • "Password about to expire" notification (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The "password about to expire" mail of the password expiry extension ezmbpaex is now described on the page Use , under The warning mail . How to schedule its job is in Setting up password expiry .
  • Audit logs (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The audit logs of the password expiry extension ezmbpaex are now described on the page Use , under The audit log , together with the other everyday parts of password expiry. For the audit of user accounts in the kernel,…
  • Changes since previous versions (Updated)
    User manual 6.x · Changed 06:11 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    This page lists the changes between the early releases 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.0 of the password expiry extension ezmbpaex, from the time when eZ Publish, the predecessor of Exponential, was its platform. It is kept for history…
  • Audit trailing (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:49 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Exponential 6 records security-relevant events in a tamper-evident audit trail: sign-ins and refused sign-ins, content moves, removals and hides, role and policy changes, section and state assignments, settings writes, c…
  • Resources (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:49 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The content API (ezprestapi) answers below /api/ezp/<version> (and the same below /api/ezpl/<version>). Version 1 reads; version 2 reads and writes. GET /content/node/<id>: one node (v1: yes, v2: yes) GET /content/node/<…