[TYPO3-dev] TCA, wsitch the look of a field but using the same field name

[Ries van Twisk]

Jochen Rieger wrote:

>Hi Ries,
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>>I don't want to bloat my record with many many fields I hardly use and 
>>like to re-use the field content
>>under different conditions.
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>yup, I understand you. But I think this is a problem of TCA 
>configuration where it is not possible to have altering settings for ONE 
>field. For cases like yours we would need a "switchable" configuration 
>for that one field with a condition to be definable for this switch.
>
>Or just add many many fields that don't get used very often. I don't 
>think that is a big problem... have a look at tt_content. There are many 
>many fields that don't get used in the majority of its records.
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Well, that's exacly my problem. I don't want to create fields in the 
database that are used just 5% of the time.
My table is not well normalized  already and I don't want to create more 
fields like done in tt_content.
The field content is exacly for the perpose.. to put content in , no 
matter what mode I am in.

I will keep the method I am using now for a while.

If I have time I can checkup to create a virtual fields array, something 
like this:

"virtualField" => array(
    "contentRTE" => "content",
    "contentColorPicker" => "content",
)

This can tell the TCA in a later stage the the content for 
contentColorPicker needs to be stored into the field content.
However I don't have much contact with core dev's to tell me this is a 
good idea or not and can't efford testing and trying for +8 hours
and come to the conclusion it's a bad idea. Also the 'wheel' might be 
invented already in Typo3 but I can't find it in the current documentations.

I will keep my ugly duck code for now.. it works perfectly anyways.

Ries


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