[TYPO3-english] Customized functionality in BE interface

[Mark Howells-Mead]

I'm at a bit of an impasse, despite having found the following reference:

> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_api/4.3.0/view/4/2/#id2526955

By using the precise example they have quoted there, the section with a label is displayed, but the field itself is not displayed. The fieldname is included in the 'showRecordFieldList' list and the 'types' definition is also set.

For reference again, here is what I'm trying to achieve: http://lockerz.com/s/106677780

What I'm specifically trying to is add a section with four regular input fields and a button next to them. When the editor clicks the button, the values of the fields are parsed and a specific set of information is saved to a separate MySQL DB table using an AJAX request. (The parsing is also carried out by Javascript.)  If the save is successful, a list/table displayed underneath these fields is updated with an HTML-formatted version of the JSON response from the server.

Thanks for any suggestions or links.

Cheers
Mark Howells-Mead