What to use instead of Model? Should I use Entity with annotations?

I'm considering if I should use 5.7 for a new project in which a lot of app-like functionality should be present. In the old pre 5.7 times I extended Model class to get Objects that needs to be presisted and used the Loader for loading Misc classes that I…

Settings>Location

According to the documentation for 5.7, Location is supposed to be listed under Settings for In-Context Editing. However, on my site omschurch.org/newsite/concrete/index.php?cID=1; only Design and SEO are listed. From what I understand, I need Location in…

An unexpected error occurred. Only variables should be passed by reference

Hopefully this helps someone else because I lost a few hours trying to figure out what was wrong. After migrating a client's 5.7 site from our development server to their production server, I got the following error when going to the file manager: A…

Location Lost when Adding Page and Using Composer

Anyone else find when they have a pagetype that requires location, that composer will validate that, but when you add a location using Location Panel that upon return to composer the location is lost? I'm seeing "Location Saved" notice and everything in L…

Adding new Automated Jobs

Hello all, There is no documentation yet for adding new automated jobs. I have tried the 5.6 docs but no luck. I want to add a new automated job to the dashboard. Here is what I have tried so far. Making a directory in my applications folder called …

Mobile Themes and tablets

I saw some older discussions about being able to exclude tablets from the mobile theme when it is enabled. I agree with what others have said before, it would be nice to have an easy dashboard way to do that. With responsive themes the tablets really do…

5.7 Is Driving Me Insane! (Missing Documentation on Page Templates)

The current documentation doesn't explain the changes in Page Templates and Page Types in 5.7. I want to do something very simple, and create an alternate Page Template for certain pages, which is like my default except that it simply has two extra di…

Topic Lists only Filter Top Level Topics

I've been playing with Topic Trees and TopicList block along with PageList block to see how all these things work. Couple of observations/questions to see if anybody can offer some ideas or thoughts about how to use it in packages. First off great tha…

Including Vendor Libraries 5.7.3.1

Hi, I'm not really sure how composer is supposed to work, but I'm a bit confused. I would like to use the MobileDetect library which is under the /concrete/vendor directory in a package. I tried just calling a new instance $mobile = new MobileDetect()…

user import

Is there a way yet to import 5.6 users into a 5.7 install? If not, can I just adjust the salt to match then import some of the common fields from the 5.6 table into the 5.7? Is there a gotcha or anything I need to be worried about. I have several thous…

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