[TYPO3-dev] typolink - link to records 2

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Daniel Pötzinger wrote: on 04.10.2007 19:06:

>> Definitively! I had just a quick look in the source code. Maybe we could
>> simplify the "browse_links" additions so instead of having "tabs" we
>> could use the "Pages" tab and simply list records from other tables
>> instead of just tt_content in the already present "list view". So if
>> tt_news records are "linkeable", simply show them in the list view
>> together with the tt_content elements which already do something
>> different (adds an anchor to the target URL).
>>
>> The tab name could then be renamed to "Pages / Records".
>>
>> What do you think?

> I definitly like it more to have the option to configure additional tabs.
> Like you see in the example you can configure a tab which is called
> "News" and where you only see the sysfolder with news.
> That is really nice to teach to an editor: "If you want to link to a
> news - just select "News" Tab and select your newsitem"
> 
> The behaviour of "page" tab now is that if you click on a page directly
> the link is generated. Its even more difficult to tell an editor to
> first click on that little ">" icon right to the page and then select
> your record.

True stuff... And this is a matter for the HCI team anyway! ;)

So why is the RTE browse_links different from the "standard" one? I
haven't really looked into this, but do you know the reasoning for this
being separate? Is the API different? Aren't the requirements the same?

Cheers,
Ernesto