[TYPO3-hci] "Places Containing TypoScript" (PCT)

[JoH]

> I tried to analyse the ways of my brain.
>
> - I want to influence the appearance of my PAGE in the frontend.
> - I have to CONFIGURE (predicate) my PAGE (direct object!)
>      - for the BE (indirect object 1)
>      - for the FE (indirect object 2)
>
> Now, if the basic task I have to perform is to configure my page, why
> is it, that I have to go to page properties in order to do so for BE,
> and to Web->Template, if want to do it for the FE?
>
> So from that point of view, Page TSConfig is in the wrong place, and
> if it was up to me, I would put it under Web->Template, which then
> would be divided into two sections:
>
> Frontend Configuration
> Backend Configuration
>
> This way it would become quite clear
> 1) that you have to do both
> 2) where what is done
>
> It would be interesting to know the reason for putting it under page
> properties in the first place. Perhaps I was putting 'INTERNALLY' into
> capital letters, because I suspected technical reasons. Anyway, as I
> told you, I am a newbie.

Just for clarification:
It's at "page properties" because TSconfig is a field of the "pages" table,
while TS templates got their own table "sys_templates".

Joey

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