Already a month is not very active, but I am doing a website on Bitrix ... before that I was not acquainted with it, I heard mostly negative reviews about it. I was “lucky” to work on it. He believed that Bitrix is ​​a high-class system, this is not Jumla for you or Drupal, such as “everything for people”. in the trainees of the trainers they constantly say that even a “non-technical specialist” can manage the site, and even do some things like post a “Question to the manager” form. In fact, it turned out that all this is nonsense. Nonsense! During the first week of study, I understood how to make three different independent menus, organize sections with news. It turned out that it is impossible to display news on some condition without distortions with sorting. And how do you "output news of a certain category (section)"? for this I need to know the category id! Today I was killed by the fact that I cannot create my own types of info-blocks with my own set of fields. Each info-block has the fields “name”, “announcement”, “full description”, pictures and 4 pieces more. Task: to make a “Question-Answer” section, and the question and answer are set by the admin. He drew attention to the standard component “FAQ”, but it requires to specify an info-block with questions and answers for output. But I can not create a special. info-block, I use what I have. But why should I write in the field "name", "announcement" and so on ?! I need only 2 fields "question" and "answer"!
Yes, he has a good visual editor through which you can arrange components on the page with the mouse.
It seems that my set of tools, screwdrivers, pincers (my native framework) were taken away from me, and they threw in an ax and a sledgehammer (Bitrix), and like “make a website”. ')
Perhaps I will find ways to bypass all these moments, at the very least I will study the Beatrix app and rewrite my modules for it. This limitation is killing me ... perhaps because I am a "technical specialist" and I know about how it should be? ..