[TYPO3-dev] Tester needed : gridelements_fce + generator

[JoH asenau]

Am 16.04.2014 12:50, schrieb Grégory Copin:
> Hi. We've build an plugin wich extend gridelements features : FCE diplay
> in backend, make section loop easier in typoscript.
> We need some feedback, so feel free to contribute. The extension is
> called gridelements_fce
> (http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/gridelements_fce)
>
> In addition, we've build a generator of Flexible content element (with
> dummies or field by field). It create flexform, typoscript, tsconfig,
> language and assets files. It's easy to use and the time saved is huge.
> The generator can be found on this github repository :
> https://github.com/Inouit/generator-grid-fce

Hi Grégory.

Please don't attach images directly to  your message, since they will 
appear as a huge pile of hieroglyphs in any newsreader. Instead you 
should upload your image somewhere else and just post a link to it :-)

When I read what you extensions does, there are two questions 
immediately popping up:

1. Did you read the following section in the Gridelements manual?

Quote: An often asked task, especially if you migrate from TemplaVoila, 
will be to provide the editors with the predefined content elements 
(FCEs) they are used to. This can be done by completely defining the 
structure as a flexform and handling it via TypoScript. You should by 
any means avoid these FCEs, since you will lose any advantage of the 
normalized Grid Elements approach. Actually Flexform fields should not 
contain any real content elements but just configurational stuff like 
checkboxes, radiobuttons and selectboxes.

2. If you still want to make use of that XML-based approach for real 
content, why don't you just use TemplaVoila instead, since AFAIK it 
offers exactly those FCE and still runs on TYPO3 6.2?

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate any work that is made for and 
with TYPO3 and/or Gridelements, but actually your approach just 
contradicts the goals we had in mind when creating Gridelements, so I 
would be interested why you chose Gridelements over TemplaVoila then.

Just my 2 cents :-)

Joey

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