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

[Joerg Wagner]

Do you really need this many templates?
If - for example - your task is to have very similar templates, that 
(again e.g.) only differ in the number of available columns, then you 
should consider another approach:
Use just one page template, and then add FCEs that can be used as 
content elements and that create different column layouts inside the 
main template. If you are familiar with YAML have a look at how it uses 
subtemplates to integrate into the main framework. The main YAML 
framework would be your overall template, the subtemplates would be 
realized as FCEs that create different floating column layouts. There is 
even an extension (did not test it yet) that implements YAML with TV in 
exactly this way. See http://yaml.t3net.de/Download.19.0.html?&L=1 
(right now in German only).

Cheers,
Jörg.


Jan Bednarik schrieb:
>> 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
> 
> That's OK. But now, with a new field, you have to go through all TO and 
> assign the new field. With more templates, this is really annoying.
> 
> I was thinking about creating a template the traditional way and using 
> TV just for the content part. This way I could add and remove template 
> elements easily without having to remap TO. But I'm not sure this can work.
>