[TYPO3-dev] Hide flexform field with typoscript in TSconfig

Martin Kutschker masi-no at spam-typo3.org
Mon Mar 23 16:16:29 CET 2009


Peter Russ schrieb:
> --- Original Nachricht ---
> Absender:   Martin Kutschker
> Datum:       23.03.2009 15:42:
>> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Martin Kutschker schrieb:
>>>
>>>> What might be a problem is that the flexform fields support the loading
>>>> of different definitions by type and subtype of the record. In theory
>>>> the same XPath could match for different forms. This may or may not
>>>> been
>>>> intended by the site admin. So I think that it mus be possible to
>>>> tie an
>>>> XPath to the correct (sub)type of the record.
>>>>
>>>> Masi
>>> this shouldn't be the case or it's wrong by design. Fields should always
>>> be unique by name, even if there is type/subtype condition.
>>
>> I don't think that plugin authors create field names that are completely
>> unique. I have not worried til now and used short names like "email" in
>> the flex form configurations of my plugins. Looking at other peoples'
>> extensions they did likewise.
>>
>> This means if extension A has a field "email" in its FF, and extension B
>> has it too then I need a way as an admin to distinguish them.
>>
>> For types this not a problem as we have already a configuration for this:
>>
>> [tablename].[field]
>> [tablename].[field].types.[type]
>>
>> Maybe we can get something like this:
>>
>> [tablename].[field].types.[type].subtypes.[subtype]
>>
> 
> In a table the fieldname has to be unique otherwise the DB complaints
> ;-) IMHO no need to add the type.

May I direct you to the TYPO3 documentation? I'm not talking about DB
field types but TCA types and subtypes.

Masi




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