[TYPO3] [advice?] Finding the right extension

[Ingo Renner]

Xavier Perseguers wrote:

Hi,

> - a person has a few attributes such as name, address and photograph 
> (tt_address seems just fine)
> 
> - persons are part of one a more group (addressgroups seems just fine)

you do not need addressgroups anymore as it is integrated in tt_address

> - groups are hierarchical:
>    -- A
>       ¦-- B
>       `-- C
>   if I choose to display the group "A", in fact, I would like to get 
> *all* persons, both from A, B and C (this seems not to be allowed by 
> addressgroups)

should work with tt_address

> - Persons are not only part of a group, they have a function in that 
> group, such as "President", "Manager" ,... (addressgroups seems not to 
> be able to deal with this)
> - In addition, may persons may have the same function (such as "Public 
> Relationship") but with different responsabilities (for public group X, 
> public group Y, ...)
> - I would like to be able to order functions in a group to get the 
> president at the top of the list, with a section <h#>President</h#> for 
> instance.

This should be possible by using groups, too. You may then have a group 
"President" with only one member...


> - I would like to display group XY on a page, but for each person it 
> would be really nice to get a link to a detailed view of the person's 
> properties to get, for instance, all groups she is member of.

This is in the making for tt_address - however no predictions when it 
will be released.


Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2