Breaking: #106976 - Removal of TCA search field configuration options 

See forge#106976

Description 

The following TCA field-level search configuration options have been removed:

  • search.case
  • search.pidonly
  • search.andWhere

These options were originally intended to customize backend record search behavior but have proven to be of little practical value:

  • They were not used in the TYPO3 Core,
  • They were not used in common third-party extensions,
  • Their behavior was unclear and inconsistently supported,
  • They were insufficiently documented and hard to validate.

This removal is part of the ongoing effort to simplify and streamline TCA configuration and reduce unnecessary complexity for integrators.

Impact 

These options are no longer evaluated. They are automatically removed at runtime through a TCA migration, and a deprecation log entry is generated to highlight where adjustments are required.

Affected installations 

Any installation or extension that defines one or more of these options in its TCA field configuration:

Example of removed TCA options 
 'my_field' => [
     'config' => [
         'type' => 'input',
-        'search' => [
-            'case' => true,
-            'pidonly' => true,
-            'andWhere' => '{#CType}=\'text\'',
-        ],
     ],
 ],
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Migration 

Remove the obsolete search options from your TCA field configurations.