[TYPO3] Override automaketemplate values from an extension template???

Fri Apr 18 16:30:26 CEST 2008

Here is my scenario...  I have an HTML file similar to the following:

<div id="main_content">
    <!--###content_heading### begin -->
       &nbsp;
    <!--###content_heading### end -->

    <!--###content_main### begin -->
       &nbsp;
    <!--###content_main### end -->
</div>

My main TS template utilizes automaketemplate and contains the following 
section to always place a specific content element in the 
content_heading section.  Here is what I am using (for sake of keeping 
this short I have only included the important parts):

temp.mainTemplate = TEMPLATE
temp.mainTemplate {
	template =< plugin.tx_automaketemplate_pi1

	# Select only the content between the <body> tags
	workOnSubpart = DOCUMENT_BODY

	subparts.content_heading >
	subparts.content_heading = RECORDS
	subparts.content_heading.tables = tt_content
	subparts.content_heading.source = 13113
}

# Default PAGE object:
page = PAGE
page.typeNum = 0

# Copying the content from the TEMPLATE object for the <body> section.
page.10 < temp.mainTemplate

This works great!  The problem that I am having is now I need to be able 
to override the subparts.content_heading.source = 13113 and substitute 
different content element uids on many different pages.

I thought that this might be possible to accomplish through the use of 
an extension template on each page that needs the new value, however I 
cannot find out how to access the subparts.content_heading.source field 
from another page.

I store unique images, text, etc. in the content elements that I am 
inserting on these various pages.  (I cannot simply use the header field 
for a content element)

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance for your time!

~Tim