Hi. I was using Cockpit several years ago, even provided and maintained an HR language file, and I remember using the Regions as snippets, for example, the site navigation menu. Returning back to see what’s new, I discovered the Singletons introduction as the replacement for Regions but I cannot f…

[image] Difference between Singleton and Region General Hi, maybe a silly question but what is the difference between singleton and region? Thx slight_smile BTW cockpit is really great! [image] Difference between Singleton and Region Singletons will replace region…

Thank you @serjoscha87 , I’ve read all of that but missed to find out where is the gain in having singletons over regions. Must dig deeper. Cheers.

Hm. For me Artur’s posts says it all. So what precisely are you missing in that explanation?

Thank you @serjoscha87 for your time and effort here. I’m not newbie but not the professional either so bare with me please. Well, as I wrote in my post, I remember using “old” Regions as snippets (like nav bar or footer). The name and code was all you need to create one. The Singleton and “new” R…

I’m afraid I am not able to give you some examples - I usually don’t use singletons and same with the regions back in the days. But I guess you are right - the main differnce is just that the template thingy fell away. Guess thats all. So basically now I think a collection is just a bunch of singl…

@WebShapedBiz , think you can use singletons as basic structures of information that are not repeating, for example, let’s imagine you want to be able to configure the footer of your website, maybe you can have a singleton with a bunch of fields: Footer Links Copyright Message Now let’s imagine yo…

Thank you @pauloamgomes @serjoscha87 for your support. I managed to wrap my head around it. The form part was confusing for me, it seemed like an unnecessary overhead to the whole “snippet” concept but I can live with it. Cheers.

Helloo! I’m starting to get the concept as well. But for a bit more concrete advice: When I update my Cockpit instance from 0.7.0 to the latest version and already have a bunch of content in the database … uhm … can I convert regions to singletons?

You can still use regions (just install the regions addon), to convert you may need to write a migration script, seems nothing too much complicated.

Hi all Here’s my use case for Regions. Region Template was used to return HTML but also run PHP. The PHP could use GET params passed in and so dynamically build the HTML and return it. Regions basically provided me with a microservice architecture e.g. api/regions/get/calcsum?value1=10&value2=20 …

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btw now there is an official addon that brings backs regions: GitHub - agentejo/Regions: Regions addon for Cockpit CMS

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