[Typo3] Re: Issues with the Futuristic Template Building (FTB) tutorial

[Vincent]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:20:10PM -0600, Vincent wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> Issue 4
> -------
> Section 1.4.2 Creating a "grid" Content Element
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_tut_ftb1/Creating_a_quot_gri/
> 
> After creating the 2 column flexible content element and adding it to
> the root page, it does not show the two columns side by side in the TV
> Web->Page module as the tutorial screen shot shows.  Instead it shows
> them underneath each other like this.
> 
> Left column content ...
> Right column content ...
> 
> Then, if I click on the "create reference" or "copy record" icon for
> the
> existing text with picture content element, I do not get the little
> clipboard icons for pasting inside the left and right column areas of
> the FCE.  They are only outside the FCE where I can paste the CE in
> the
> page above or below it.
> 
> If I edit the FCE record and add text to the left and right columns of
> the content fields, it displays properly in the front end.  So I think
> that I created the FCE correctly.
> 
> Is the tutorial correct here?  Should I be able to move or copy
> a content element into one of the columns inside the FCE that
> I created?
> If so, any idea what I could be doing wrong?  Other than that, it
> behaved just like the rest of the screen shots on that tutorial page.

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:22:54AM +0200, Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> AFAIK full cliboard support will be available in TV 1.0 which will be
> out with typo3 4.0 in December.

Hah!  It turns out the *tutorial was correct*.

After completing the FTB tutorial and understanding a little more about
it, I got to thinking that maybe I got the editing type wrong, so I went
back and changed the _Editing type_ for both the left and right columns
to *Content Element*, and Voila!  It displayed the same way in my BE as
the tutorial showed.  Now I was able to create a reference to another
element and paste it into each column.  I looked closer at the tutorial
page, and, sure enough, It did say 
_For each field we chose "Content Element" for Editing type_ 
right under one of the screen shots.  Somehow, I just kept overlooking
that the first time through.  I had originally set the Editing type to
_Text area for body text_.


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