[TYPO3-templavoila] Best practice - 1 DS, many TO

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Jan Bednarik wrote:
> I've started to use TV just recently, so I'm not sure about a lot of 
> stuff. One thing that bothers me is that I've usually got about 3 or 
> more TO with different content layout and when I want to change/add 
> element that's common for all TO (such as footer, language selector), I 
> need to go through all TO mappings and assign the new element manually. 
> This gets really anoying with more than 3 TO. Is there a way how to add 
> new element to DS easily without having to open all TO?

Two ways:
- use "Modify DS/TO" button
- edit DS XML manually

Adding a field to DS makes it available for evey TO associated with this DS

> Another thing is, that I start with one template, set all neccessary 
> mapping. Then, I create another template and because I'm lazy, I copy 
> the first template, so I don't have to set all common mapping again. The 
> problem is, elements from first template, that are not present in the 
> second template, give me warning, because they have their mapping set, 
> but the element doesn't exist in the second template. And there's no way 
> how to delete just some mappings and not all of them.

This question deserves to be in FAQ. Click "Ch.mode" and set mode to empty string.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
My TYPO3 book: http://www.packtpub.com/typo3-extension-development/book
In the blog: http://typo3bloke.net/pages/book-reviews/presentation-zen-by-garr-reynolds/