Articles tagged with “Backend”
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Customizing preview widgets in the TYPO3 page module
The user experience of the TYPO3 page module suffers as soon as you insert content elements with custom fields. The preview widgets all look like the same, hiding important information. How to solve this? -
Using the new TCA wizard "suggest" for autocompletion in BE fields of TYPO3 4.3
There's a new type of wizard in the TYPO3 core called "suggest", which has been added to TCA with 4.3beta-1. This wizard adds a magic input field for autocompletion to fields of type "group" or "select", also called find-as-you-type. It helps to quickly find a record by typing its name/title in the suggest field, getting an AJAX dropdown list with all possible results. This article demonstrates how to implement this wizard in your TYPO3 extension. -
Save-and-view button for records of TYPO3 extensions
When editing a page in the TYPO3 backend, there's a whole bunch of save buttons available. The "save document and view page" button allows to save the content and open a preview popup with one click. Unfortunately this does only work for regular pages and content elements, but not for database records of extensions which are stored inside sysfolders. The following tutorial describes a way to get that button also running for those records. -
Conditions and dynamic values in TCA fields of TYPO3
TYPO3 backend and TCA simetimes appear a bit old school. Fields and values are less flexible like you are used to in recent AJAX applications. How to make them more flexible without heavy JS frameworks like ExtJS?