[TYPO3-english] vge_tagcloud and tt_news

[Claudio Strizzolo]

Hi all
I've solved my problem, at last.
I couldn't find a way to define the startPage from the TS including both 
the root page of my site and the tt_new folder, and make the whole thing 
work. By looking at the documentation I had thought this should work, 
while it doesn't in my case:

  # 34 is the uid of my root page
  # 280 is the uid of the folder containing the tt_news
  startPage.data = 34,280

However, the extension works as expected by adding the two references 
through the Startingpoint field of the plugin configuration form.

In case this helps someone else, I supply some more information about my 
configuration. Here is the final TS setup, basically taken from examples 
here and there:

  plugin.tt_news.searchFieldList = keywords

  plugin.tx_vgetagcloud_pi1 {
    references {
      1 {
        table = tt_news
        fields = keywords
      }
      2 {
        table = pages
        fields = keywords
      }
    }

    tagWrap {
      typolink {
        parameter.data = field:tag_link
        additionalParams.dataWrap = &tx_vgetagcloud_pi2[pages]=
{field:tag_pages}&tx_vgetagcloud_pi2[keyword]={field:tag_keyword}
        additionalParams.data = field:tag_keyword
        additionalParams.wrap = &tx_ttnews[swords]=|
        useCashHache = 1
      }
    }
  }

  plugin.tx_vgetagcloud_pi2 {
    results.includeNotInMenu = 1
  }

  # I installed the sm_tagcloudcleanup extension, in order to remove the 
PID
  # of the folder containing the tt_news items from links.
  # Here I assign the list of PIDs to be removed (just one, in my case) to
  # the removePids option
  plugin.tx_smtagcloudcleanup_hook {
    removePids = 280
  }

The results page includes both the vgetagcloud_pi2 and the tt_news plugin, 
in order to manage pages and tt_news entries separately, like Steffen 
Müller suggested in an old post.
tt_news plugin is configured in SEARCH mode in order to display the
news including the desired keyword. See tt_news documentation
for more details.

Claudio