[TYPO3-dev] [TYPO3-core] RFC: #8623: Shortcut mode also to the parent page

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Uschi Renziehausen
<typo3news at otherone.de> wrote:
> bernd wilke wrote:
>
>>> But I still do not understand why quite a few of you people do not see a
>>> natural difference between a shortcut and an external page. Obviously
>>> you use external page for some nifty tricks.Which ones? I am curious to
>>> know!
>>
>> one example: jump to an internal page with some special GET-parameters.
>> e.g. some special preselected views of an extension.
>> as you can't provide paramters to a shortcut you have to use external,
>> also the target is in the tree. :-(
>>
>
> Thanks for enlightenment. In this special case I would suggest that the
> doktypes Standard, Shortcut, and Advanced should learn to accept
> GET-parameters somehow, while External should stay as it is.
>
> Any other funny uses of doktype External?


I don't completely understand: why are the two existing pagetypes
preferable to what was suggested in the first message in the thread?

>> A pagetype "link" with link_browser and some additional params would
>> solve all issues imho, and it's easy to understand the concept, isn't it?

Since this is already how the UI works in other linking contexts, I'd
say extending the concept to page records is very good suggestion. But
perhaps I've missed something?

-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/
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