How do you turn on developer mode?

[nocstaff@urbancom.net]

I want to create custom fields in the Lead entity, but I saw online in order to do so, you have to checkmark a "developer mode" box in the webpage's settings. However, there was no developer mode option in the page's settings anywhere. I also saw you can do this in the back end by editing the config.php file in the root of the application and changing developerMode from false to true, however there was no mention of this in the file, so I just added 'developerMode' => true, right underneath the siteUrl line, and I also tried "isDeveloperMode. Neither of those worked.

[yuri]

isDeveloperMode

But it's not supposed to be used for an instance that is installed from the build. It won't work. It's supposed to work if you work on an ext-template repository or if you use the espocrm repository.

[nocstaff@urbancom.net]

I am using EspoCRM from a live server and editing the files in a WinSCP server. The reason why I wanted to enable developer mode is because I was trying to make a custom "smsOptIn" field for Lead or Contact so I can make a Opt-In form. Do you happen to know of a work around?

[yuri]

You can get away without the developer mode I believe.

Run clear-cache and update-app-timestamp after any change.

bin/command clear-cache && bin/command update-app-timestamp

[nocstaff@urbancom.net]

I tried running this and I get an error message saying "no such file or directory". I tried running this at the root of the project and again in the root of the server itself but had the same problem. Is there a specific spot I am expected to do this?

[yuri]

From the Espo root folder. Maybe no file permissions.

Here's how it ran for me: