[Typo3-dev] extension TCA question

[Zach Davis]

Rupert Germann wrote:
> hi zach,
> 
> Zach Davis wrote:
> 
>>One of my clients want an extension in which the records would be
>>organized by category and sub-category. For example, a category might be
>>"landscapes" and it might have the sub-categories "mountains" and
>>"plains." The idea is that when the user created a record in the
>>backend, she could select the category from one drop-down menu and then
>>select the sub-category from another drop-down. Can anyont think of a
>>way (using TCA, flexforms, whatever) to make the contents of the
>>sub-category dropdown menu change based on what's been selected in the
>>category dropdown? (in the example, we would only want the
>>sub-categories of the "landscape" category to show up.)
> 
> 
> that should be possible with the "type" field 
> see: 
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_api/ctrl_section/
> and
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_api/types_key_secti/
> 
> greets
> rupi

Thanks Rupi -- that's a big help.

best,
Zach