[TYPO3-templavoila] configuring extensions - content element vs lib.myObject

[Patrick Scholman]

Hello Cate,

Your thread(s) made me curious. Some of your remarks rang true with me 
so I was hoping to find some tips I could use in the future. Most of the 
time I have been able to figure out how to use the extensions I needed 
though.

I hadn't tried DrWiki yet but installed it on a test site to see what I 
could make of it. I am not too familiar with Wikis, but I get an 
editable area as I would expect SIMPLY by adding the plugin as cObject 
to a page. Check this out: http://mentor.scholman.org/excel/tesyt.html 
(This page will not stay there very long though...)

The lib.myObject way of adding content to a page is, as far as I can 
tell, only useful when you want to re-use the same content on many 
pages. Do you really want the Wiki to appear on all pages that use your 
TV template?

The only way I can think of to configure the lib.myObject object is to 
use the TypoScript Object Browser or the predefined Template Constants 
and look at the options that you have there under plugin.tx_drwiki_pi1...

Maybe I just repeated obvious things, then forget all this, otherwise I 
HTH...

Patrick


Cate & Peter wrote:
> Hi all 
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> In a recent thread (Extensions and TV [was Templavoila mapping problem]) I
> was discussing difficulties with using some extentions.
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> In particular, I said I thought I had succeeded with inserting dr Wiki as
> lib.myObject, which Dmitry, you suggested was the correct way.
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> In fact, when I went back and checked, I had inserted it as a content
> element, which didn't work for ages, and then finally I copied a wiki
> element that did work, and managed to cut and paste, and all was well.
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> However, I am now getting the same buggy behaviour (no wiki showing).
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> However, I cant figure out how to configure extensions when they are
> included as lib.myObjects - for example, dr Wiki has flex forms to do all
> the configuring, and no documentation about any other way.
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> Does it all have to be done in the .php files included in the extension? Or
> is there another way through the TStemplate?
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> cate
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