[TYPO3-irre] foreign_selector and useCombination issue

[Jochen Rieger]

Hi Torsten,

> In an already existing parent record the child record selected via
> foreign_selector gets loaded but some of the fields stay empty though
> they normally contain values... once the parent is saved again, all
> fields of the child record are filled correctly. Im using TYPO3 4.2.1.

I experienced similar behaviour. Particularly with IRRE children and RTE 
fields.

As far as I could reproduce, there seems to be a problem when changing 
the order of the child records (no matter if you use drag'n drop or the 
usual arrows). It's a somehow dangerous isse as editors tend to search 
for their eagerly typed in bodytext... and if they do (means clicking 
into the suddenly empty RTE field, the content will really be lost after 
saving.

Only work-around that I know by now is:

1) Change the order
2) don't look, don't panic, just save teh whole record first! :)
3) continue editing the re-appearing contents

I don't know if this is related rather to IRRE or to RTE but considering 
Torstens experience it might be an IRRE issue!?

Regards,
Jochen