Feature: #100171 - Introduce TCA type uuid¶

Description¶

In our effort of introducing dedicated TCA types for special use cases, a new TCA field type called uuid has been added to TYPO3 Core. Its main purpose is to simplify the TCA configuration when working with fields, containing a UUID.

The TCA type uuid features the following column configuration:

enableCopyToClipboard
fieldInformation
required: Defaults to true
size
version

Note

In case enableCopyToClipboard is set to true, which is the default, a button is rendered next to the input field, which allows to copy the UUID to the clipboard of the operating system.

Note

The version option defines the UUID version to be used. Allowed values are 4, 6 or 7. The default is 4. For more information about the different versions, have a look at the corresponding symfony documentation.

The following column configuration can be overwritten by page TSconfig:

size
enableCopyToClipboard

An example configuration looks like the following:

'identifier' => [
    'label' => 'My record identifier',
    'config' => [
        'type' => 'uuid',
        'version' => 6,
    ],
],

Impact¶

It is now possible to use a dedicated TCA type for rendering of a UUID field. Using the new TCA type, corresponding database columns are added automatically.