[TYPO3-english] Custom Display for Record lists in Backend

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi unknown,

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On 15-12-2013 14:46, freetime coder wrote:
> I am trying to display data records of my extension in the backend. The
> default for records in list view is to only show the first property name
> as the name of the list as well as only display the first value. So if I
> have a record called coordinates, which has longitude, latitude and date
> for example, the list will show up as:
>
> longitude
> 0.12
> 12.123
> etc..
>
> I however want a custom way to display it, e.g:
>
> Entries
> (0.12,0.32) - 12.01.2013
> (12.123, 45) - 01.04.2012
>
> I have already done research on this topic and found a lot of
> configurations for TCA to create custom forms and such, but no way to
> acheive this behaviour.

In the TCA documentation you can find that you can set a few properties 
for the "title" of a record:
- label : the name of a field to use as title. This might be set to 
longitude in your current situation
- label_alt : a comma-separated list of field names which contain the 
alternative values for the title
- label_alt_force : forces that the label_alt fields are always used for 
the title
- label_userFunc : a function or method reference which can create 
custom "titles" for records. There is an example in the TCA 
documentation. You could use this setting to create any kind of "title" 
constructions for your records in the WEB > List module (and other 
places where the title of a record is used).

[1] http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/TCAReference/Reference/Ctrl/Index.html

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Jigal van Hemert
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