[TYPO3-english] Check if an area doesn't contain elements

[Tapio Markula]

JoH asenau
>>> @Tapio: As long as you stay on the same page with your checks, most
>>> of the TypoScript stuff will be working as expected even with TV,
>>> since "current" contains the necessary information.
>> if "current" contains in this case the necessary information, then it
>> is useful.
>> But that may not help, if you for some reason would change the order
>> of elements.
>> Anyway the problem of templavoila is that the position of elements in
>> the page is not stored into the table 'tt_content', when essential
>> information about if a content area has elements or not is in two
>> tables (tt_content and pages).
> 
> This is not about sorting but about checking if there are elements at all.
> And the information if an area has got elements is available via pages only.

that is the problem of templavoila and that makes many issues difficult

> In tt_content you can just find a value for "pid" to make sure the element
> is related to a particular page.
> But this doesn't necessarily mean that it is used in any area, since it
> might be a "non used element".

Yes, I know. This is the main issue that makes tt_content related 
SQL-queries useless with templavoila and using RECORD object is in most 
cases nonsense