Articles tagged with “TCA”

Using the new TCA wizard "suggest" for autocompletion in BE fields of TYPO3 4.3
Oct 2, 2009 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.
Conditions and dynamic values in TCA fields of TYPO3
Jun 20, 2009 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?