[TYPO3-team-templavoila] Templa-Firewall

[Tolleiv Nietsch]

Hi,
sorry for the late response. I think the term "TemplaVoila" Firewall is 
not 100% correct.

What Kian and Kasper called "firewall" in their Podcast is a new content 
element wizard which is context sensitive and which enables to remove 
certain FCEs within the "new content element" wizard based on the 
context. So it's just a firewall to protect the user not to place a FCE 
within the wrong context.

Currently we've reviewed the concept of our first version of the 
extension and we're going to reimplement this extension in the next 
months. Especially the fact that it is pretty hard to configure such a 
service - especially for projects with more than 50 or 100 FCEs and tons 
of "contexts" - was the reason why we never published the old version 
and is also the reason why we start over.

Regarding your other ideas - I'd love to have the functionality you 
described but that's nothing you could have without patching the Core 
and since changes in the Flexform-Part of the TCEForms take ages to go 
through the Core-List I doubt that something like this is available very 
soon. (My displayCond-Patch for Flexforms is pending there for the last 
months although 1 Core-Developer already "+1"ed it ...) - but it should 
be enought to add a option to displayCond to handle access to fields. 
Currently there's only <displayCond>HIDE_FOR_NON_ADMINS</displayCond>... 
maybe something similar with Group-IDs would do what you're looking for 
- writing this Patch shouldn't be that hard - configuring the fields 
without GUI-support later on would be much harder ;).

But that's of course not part of our "firewall" since our biggest 
problem was that the editors didn't find the right FCE because there 
where too much of them. Btw just to make this clear the extension-key is 
not "firewall" ;)

I hope that caused not too much confusion - and I hope Daniel and Mick 
agree with it :P

Best regards,
Tolleiv

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