[Typo3-dev] Displaying label_alt in TCE Group

[Steve Webster]

Hi everyone,

Developing my first extension and wondered if this is possible.  I have 2 tables, one containing people records (containing 2 columns, 1 for Surname, the other Forename) the other containing details regarding teams.  The extension is intended to be used as a sports team management system.

When displaying people records in the "List" view it would only list the "Surname" (as "label" = surname) which obviously caused problems distinguishing different people with the same surname.  So I modified by TCA and set the label_alt="forename" and label_alt_force=true.  This fixed the "List" view in that records are now displayed in the format <Surname>, <Forename>

I have another table, called Teams, where I want to select a number of people (who are team coaches) from my first table via a "GROUP" columm.  I have my TCA column defined as:
  "coaches" => Array (  
   "exclude" => 1,  
   "label" => "LLL:EXT:user_webboteammgr/locallang_db.php:tx_webboteammgr_teams.coaches",  
   "config" => Array (
    "type" => "group", 
    "internal_type" => "db", 
    "allowed" => "tx_webboteammgr_non_players", 
    "size" => 4, 
    "minitems" => 0,
    "maxitems" => 10, 
    "MM" => "tx_webboteammgr_teams_coaches_mm",
   )

Everything works great, I hit the browse button of the group column and can select the correct player as the records show the format as I defined earlier (<Surname>, <Forename>).  However, once I select a player to be added to my form, it only displays the players Surname in the form not the <Surname>, <Forename> format that I defined.

I've read the docs for the [CTRL] section and can see it says "May not be used consistently in the system, but should apply in most cases" regarding the "label_alt" field.

Any suggestions from anyone?

Thanks

Steve
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