[Typo3] Skeleton-structure

Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 08:40:59 CEST 2005


In Unix you have /etc/skeleton where you can put stuff that you want every 
new user you create on the system to get.
Is there something like it in Typo3?

Example:
I was recently creating a page for a tournament on our site. On this page 
there is:
a textbox (intro text to be entered by tournament coodinator)
a table holding participants and results
a tt_news object to hold news items assigned to the tournament

Everytime I create a new tournament, I have to add all of this anew.
Or; make a copy of the page, insert the copy - reedit everything to suit the 
new tournament (lots of unnecessary tasks)
Or; create a hidden "skeleton" without data, copy it to a new tournament and 
open it (adds clutter)

What if one could, when creating a page (or page structure) somewhere 
designate it as a skeleton (and save the skeleton state in a database 
naturally). Then in the BE you just had to go to the desired location, 
choose "Insert skeleton" and voila! there's you new structure - ready for 
the editor to fill in the data.

Perhaps there is such a thing in Typo3 already, but I'm missing it?


Regards,

Martin S



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