[TYPO3-dam] Fwd: Re: DAM / templavoila / FCE

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello grac at gmx.ch,

Check the teams.core list. I think Stanislas already has done part of or most of the changes.

> hi peter
> 
>> at first: after working on the problem now for a few days im sure
>> that
>> this is no DAM and no TV problem at all. Its a missing core feature
>> that
>> would afaik only be needed by TV implementations using MM-relations
>> to
>> third party if it would exist ;).
>> what i found (and see as part of if not the whole problem) is that
>> every
>> flexible content element has to fail, if it points more than one time
>> to
>> the same MM-relation table, tx_dam_mm_ref in our case:
>> the table then holds the foreign uid pointing to the tt_content
>> record
>> twice and the same ident taken from the tca config twice. nothing
>> tells
>> and nothing is used to tell which record belongs to which formfield
>> inside the flexible content.
>> unlike christian i think there is sort of an identifier - the so
>> called
>> "structure path" - compiled in TCEmain, but its not consistently
>> passed
>> around through all methods storing and fetching data.
>> meanwhile im two-thirds done with the prob (storing/fetching data
>> works)
>> working at the third (references remain in the mm-table if parts of a
>> flexible content are deleted).
>> I did not dig into rteimages till now (simply cause they are thank
>> god
>> not used in the project im working on).
> i'm not exactly sure if i fully understand. but thanks for the
> explicity. i will try to re-enact your thoughts as far as possible.
> 
> for me and my projects it's just a matter of astonishment:
> 
> working frequently with CSS it was for me only natural that CSS
> classes
> could be integrated also for images, not only for text.
> but typo3 seems to work totally different on images: you only have the
> possibility of fixed width and height in the RTEimage element (unlike
> other CMS).
> therefore i changed my strategy and used only RTEtext elements, also
> for
> images.
> and in the html window i added the CSS class for the images by hand.
> this worked perfectly, until i installed DAM 1.1.0dev and all these in
> the
> RTEtext integrated images dissappeared in the FRONTEND.
> interestingly enough: all images with RTEimage are shown as before.
> 
> since i have to use DAM because of it's wonderful treatment of meta
> data  going back is not an option.
> 
> and using templavoila with FCE is also essential.
> 
> so i ask:
> - is DAM ever going to detect images in RTEtext elements and treat
> them
> accordingly?
> or
> - is RTEimage going to have an integrated function for inserting CSS
> classes?
> depending on the respective answer i will have to change again my
> strategy  of how to integrate class-defined images in my elastic
> layouts.
> 
> thanks for any further help and hints.
> 
> stephan
> 
WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no