[TYPO3-english] Synchronising front-end and back-end layouts

[Victor Livakovsky]

Hi, Graham.

> Our pages use 3 layouts selectable by individual editors. Under 4.5 
> editors currently see both front-end and back-end selector boxes. I would 
> like to remove this duplication and just show the back-end selectors. I 
> would then refer to the back-end selector when rendering the page.
>
> My problem is that our existing pages do not have back-end layouts set. Is 
> there a way I can set these by reference to the existing layout fields?

Sure, you can.
have a look at this piece of TS code:
page.10 = TEMPLATE
page.10.template = FILE
page.10.template.file.cObject = CASE
page.10.template.file.cObject {
  key.data = levelfield:-1,backend_layout_next_level,slide
  key.override.field = backend_layout
  1 = TEXT
  1.value = fileadmin/templates/home.html
  2 = TEXT
  2.value = fileadmin/templates/inner_main.html
  3 = TEXT
  3.value = fileadmin/templates/inner_secondary.html
}

This code makes template file be changeable, depending on user's selection 
of BE layout (regarding both fields: BE layout for current page and for 
child pages). Key here is the uid of backend layout record.
Enjoy ;)