[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug #14113: IRRE takes 100000 as default for TCA maxitems but it should be 1

Jochen Rau jochen.rau at typoplanet.de
Fri Apr 16 23:17:45 CEST 2010


Hi Francios.

On 15.04.10 21:22, Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Ehrm. What's next? Any suggestions from other developers?
>
> This "maxitems" thing has always bothered me. I've always found it
> ridiculous to set this to some absurdly high value to fake an unlimited
> number of relations. IMO it would make much more sense to be able to
> leave that parameter out of the configuration entirely (or maybe set it
> to 0), meaning that there's no upper limit.
>
> I know this reflection is not strictly related to the current issue, but
> I would find this an excellent opportunity to fix what I consider
> basically to be a design flaw. I don't know what would exactly be the
> impact, though. I guess we would have the problem the other way round,
> in that it would break existing "select" and "group" which expected to
> have 1 by default.
>
> Any opinions on this?

I see no chance to change the existing maxitems=1 for "select" and 
"group" without breaking most of the extensions. We're locked in here.

Regards
Jochen


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