[Typo3-dev] Feature questions

[Michael Stucki]

Peter Niederlag wrote:

>> - What is the difference to have a page-type called "Not in menu" and to
>> have a page field called "Hide in menu"? Couldn't we get rid of the
>> "Hide in menu" field, as there is no indication in the page-hierarchy as
>> to the hidden status if this field is set?
> 
> the field was just "recently" added due to user requests. I dislike the
> missing "visual feedback" in the tree as well. But it might come in
> handy when you want to hide an external-url or FE-restricted page(!) for
> example...
> 
> I think it'll stay that way.

At least for 3.8 - yes. The reason is just easy: Backwards compatibility.

Once 3.9 development has started we should really think about writing a
migration tool that changes things like it could be done here...

- michael
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