[TYPO3-english] Extending DAM

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 23-9-2010 1:43, ktt wrote:
> How could I add custom fields to DAM and display them in a separate tab?
> It seems there is not much documentation on this topic.

Basically you have to write your own extension which adds new fields to 
the DAM database tables and adds these fields in the BE to a new tab.

The kickstarter extension will help you a lot with adding the fields and 
basic configuration of the BE interface, but you will most likely need 
to do some tweaking to get it the way you want it too look and behave.

Dmitry Dulepov wrote an excellent book about TYPO3 extension development 
[1]. Technical information about field types, options and loads of other 
development related stuff is available in the documentation section of 
the typo3.org site [2].

You won't find a step-by-step documentation about adding fields to an 
extension in an extension manual because it's not information which is 
specific to that extension.

For development related discussions there is also a dedicated list 
'typo3.dev'.

[1] https://www.packtpub.com/typo3-extension-development/book
[2] 
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_api/current/

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Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet,

Jigal van Hemert
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