[TYPO3] changing the sort method of custom records to manual sorting.

[bernd wilke]

on Fri, 16 May 2008 16:16:43 +0200, Andrew Plank wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wrote my first extension - pretty much guessing and hacking as I was
> going along - but now I'm in the situation where I need to make some
> "deep" configuration changes...
> 
> I chose to order the records automatically by "tstamp". Now, I need to
> order them manually.
> 
> I created a new extension template using the kickstarter, and noticed
> the difference is that the "sortby" key is set to the "sorting" field in
> the database in ext_tables.php.
> 
> So... I manually made this change in my ext_tables.php file, and
> modified the ext_tables.sql file to reflect this change, and then
> checked the extension in the EM, which noticed the missing field and
> added it to the DB.
> 
> However... even though I manually used phpMyAdmin to adjust the
> "sorting" column, I still do not see any "move up" and "move down" icons
> in my list of records.
> 
> What else am I missing?

as your new field is in the database-table, it is not known to TYPO3. 
The description of all fields is in the TCA.

if you inspect the whole kickstarter-output you will find different 
changes in multiple files. not only one new line in ext_tables.sql
on changing tables there might be also changes in:
ext_tables.php, tca.php, locallang_db.xml, ...


bernd
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