reusable content

Hi I’ve started playing around with Concrete5. So far its excellent. I have a list of news items on the home page of my site which I want repeated on some of the other pages, is this possible. Thanks Jon

Database manipulation and using Dreamweaver as an editor

Hi All I am working on a template for C5 that ultimately will be used for small to medium size business in their HR departments. Some database questions. 1. How far is the C5 db normalized? Looks like it is to Level 3. 2. When and if I add …

Basic Block or Page Type?

First I'd like to say how much I like Concrete5, it's definitely the best CMS I have seen so far, and I have seen a few... Here's a very basic question and I guess I could answer it myself but since I have not found a discussion on it I'll just throw i…

Scrapbook block connection

I've built a site where I've used the scrapbook quite often. There are several blocks which I just have to edit on one page now. This is cool, but I'm getting a hard time keeping the overview of all these connections.. Does someone else have this pr…

External Form with Content

Hi, I'm new with Concrete and so far I like it a lot. I have a problem though, and I hope somebody has the answer: I'm trying to inlcude an external form (basically a php snippet) in a Content block. I've tried to simply drop the php code in my block but …

Block Flash > allowFullScreen

Hi, I'have embeded flash content with a flash block, works great. But in my swf i have a button with fscommand: [code]fscommand("fullscreen", true);[/code] It seems that c5 flash implementation doesn't allow by default full screen feature, am i w…

guest book block not sending notification

I have added the guest book block to my page and have submitted test posts, which works fine. However, no notification is sent to the email address I have entered in the 'alert email address when comment posted' box. This means that when I check 'yes' fo…

Enabling "Pretty URLs" on Lighttpd-based c5

I've decided to run a c5 project on lighttpd instead of Apache. I really wanted to 'Enable Pretty URLs', but got stuck on the issue of translating the Apache rewrite snippet provided when you check the option in Dashboard >> Sitewide Settings >> Linking.…

Folders in File Manager

Hi guys is there any way to make folders in the filemanager?? if not i think that would be a great feature

Editable area

Hi I cannot find editable area on the site anywhere on how to do this. I think its not active for me I have no clue what to do Thanks

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Editing (v7+)