[TYPO3-dev] Deprecating "mainpalette" property of TCA['ctrl']

[Michael Miousse]

Le Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:08:21 +0200, Francois Suter a écrit :

> Hi all,
> 
> I just discovered the "mainpalette" property of the "ctrl" section of
> the TCA, after fighting with the display of the fe_group field of
> tt_content ;-)
> 
> I can understand the usefulness of this property, especially in the case
> of tt_content, where there are so many types and it would be easy to
> forget the fe_group field - for example - when introducing a new type.
> 
> However I find this mechanism disturbing, especially now that the use of
> tabs is becoming more prevalent. Indeed if you want to add a new tab to
> the TCA of a table that uses the mainpalette mechanism, then you will
> find these mainpalette fields in your new tab. Or even without tabs,
> they will appear after other new fields which you may have wanted to be
> the last ones. In short I find that it disturbs the proper functioning
> of TCA/TCEforms.
> 
> I would thus like to propose the following:
> 
> - modify the tt_content TCA (and maybe other core tables; haven't
> checked) in 4.3 so as not to rely on mainpalette anymore - deprecate the
> use of mainpalette
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers

I totaly agree with you on this françois.