[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bidirectioanl MM relations

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Ingmar,


> Franz Holzinger wrote:
> > MM tables should be changed in a way to make them editable in with
> TCE
> > forms in the backend.
> > 
> > http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=2822
> > 
> > This will be needed in the future, because when you have additional
> > attributes to mm relations then those need a backend interface to
> the
> > user.
> 
> The idea of storing additional information attached to relations is
> good, but I think making mm-tables editable like any other tables
> configured in TCA would cause a lot of problems and unexpected
> behavior.
> 
To make it clear: I did never expect from you to write a patch for this
additional feature. It would have been fine however to prepare some
things for this - no demand of course.

Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 17:21 +0200, rupert germann a écrit : 
> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:04, Sebastian Kurfuerst wrote:
> > Hi Rupi,
> >
> > > works great with the mmtest extension, but IMO one important case is
> > > missing: what about relations where the source and the target table are
> > > the same? in your example that would be f.i. a relation between different
> > > people. That seems not (yet) to be possible.
> >
> > It is currently possible to do that when having a relation like "Parent
> > -> Children" to edit it from both sides, even when using the same
> > table... What is not possible however is an "undirectional" relation
> > between two records which is at the same time editable at both sides. Is
> > this needed?
> 
> yes, I think so. f.e. for related news.

the same for related products. 


Greets,

Franz