[TYPO3-dam] Edit the Labels in the backend ... How?

[Oliver Rasche]

Hey Georg,

thanks for your reply. Thats sounds really good. I would have never 
thoutgh of that :) But your solution looks very praticable.
I'll see what I can do :)


Oliver




> Oliver,
> 
> Independent of the extension you would like to change, and already 
> working with TYPO <= 4.2 the following procedure works just fine:
> - create a new extension (say user_dam_custom_georg) with the kickstarter;
> - in there add the files tca.php locallang_db.xml ... and do your 
> customizations in there.
> - install it and take care that your new extension is being loaded 
> (installation order) AFTER the original extension.
> - this will overwrite the configuration / values whatever of the 
> original extension and will survive an eventual update of the original 
> extension.
> 
> For code-examples you might wanna checkout Rene Fritz' example Extension:
> http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/dam_demo/1.0.1/info/fields%252Fext_tables.php/ 
> 
> hth, regards georg
> 
> Oliver Rasche wrote:
>> Hi Malte,
>>
>> thanks for your reply. I am not very experienced messing around with 
>> TS. Especially the DAM extension with all its modules ...
>>
>> I edited tca.php and recieved the results I wanted, but this solution 
>> does have the drawback you described about updating the extension. 
>> Would you be so kind and give me a small jumpstart in this? :)
>> I took alook at the default TSfile included, but I can't seem to get a 
>> hold on the labels in the backend.
>>
>> I would really appreciate it.
>>
>> Malte Jansen schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> you can edit labels via TS in 4.2 ;)
>>> Otherwise the changes get lost, if you update an extension.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Malte
>>>
>>>
>>> Oliver Rasche schrieb:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have been having troubles editing the labels of the formfields in 
>>>> the backend of the DAM extension. To be specific, I am talking about 
>>>> the fields (referring to the media item) you see when you click on 
>>>> the edit button of the media item. There, for example, I would like 
>>>> to edit the label of the field "Copyright" to i.e. "Owner" - I 
>>>> located the corresponding file (locallang_db.xml) and edited the 
>>>> corresponding entry (I have done this by using the extension 
>>>> a4n_edit_locallang).
>>>>
>>>> My changes are successfully saved, but in the backend the label 
>>>> still reads "Copyright".
>>>>
>>>> Where am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> Greetings :)