[TYPO3-dev] Dynamic Backend Editing

[Johannes Künsebeck]

Oliver Hader schrieb:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I had some time to work on "Dynamic Backend Editing". It's all about
> integrating different tables in one TYPO3 Backend view and being able to
> add new instances of that foreign table. The concept comes close to the
> "database relation" but it's a bit different.
> 
> Database relations show you all items of a certain table on the current
> page or in a global aspect. Then you can select those you want to have.
> In Dynamic Backend Editing these items are also stored on a page, but
> they only belong to one parent item (the "embedding item"), so the
> backend user doesn't see all the others in his select-box (or whatever).
> 
> The next thing is, that you don't have to use a wizard to creat new
> items and click here, click there, save, click and come back to the
> record you usually were working on. This concept offers a possibility to
> set these new items of a foreign table (I call it "instances") on the
> fly without having to reload the backend view. And it's also possible to
> edit these instances right away.
> 
> The configuration is done via TCA on using a userFunc. So you use the
> usual way to build up your extension (e.g. using the kickstarter). If
> you'd like to use dynbeedit, just go to the tca.php and add something
> like this:
> 
> $TCA['tx_myExtensionTable']['columns']['myField'] = Array(
>   'exclude' => 1,		
>   'label' => 'something',
>     'config' => array(
>       'type' => 'user',
>       'userFunc' => 'tx_dynbeedit->start',
>         'params' => array(
>           'table' => 'tx_myOtherExtensionTableToEmbed',
>           'singleViewClickBehaviour' => 1,
>           'collapseInstances' => 1,
>         ),
>       ),
>     ),
>   ),
> );
> 
> I created a small example, that addresses a problem described here:
> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Usability_Innovation_Dynamic_Backend_Editing
> 
> Today I uploaded the first very, very alpha release to the TER
> ("dynbeedit"). It's just proof-of-concept, not finished and maybe some
> things have to be completely different in the future or are nonsense.
> It's just to get an idea of the whole thing.
> 
> For those of you that are interested in that, I've set up a tiny TYPO3
> environment with "Dynamic Backend Editing" installed, so have a look at:
> 
> http://dev.t3ip.de/typo3/
> User: dynbeedit
> Pass: (same as the username)
> 
> 
> olly
This extension is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on right now.
It only a simple "one person" -> "many jobs done" relation. Your extension would help a lot.
The problem is that my project should be ready this week...
So maybe i'll play the beta (or alpha...) tester. Or would you recommend not to do so?