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Special Configuration introduction

In relation to "types"-configuration it is possible to pass special parameters to a field only for certain "types"-configurations. For instance you can define that a text field should not wrap text lines for certain types. The following definition (in the "tx_examples_dummy" table of the "examples" extension) adds a nowrap configuration to the "description field":

'0' => array('showitem' => 'hidden;;;;1-1-1, record_type;;;;2-2-2, title;;;;3-3-3, description;;;nowrap, some_date;;1 '),

The field itself is defined absolutely normally:

'description' => array(
        'exclude' => 0,
        'label' => 'LLL:EXT:examples/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_examples_dummy.description',
        'config' => array(
                'type' => 'text',
                'cols' => 50,
                'rows' => 3
        )
)

The result is a textarea field where lines are not wrapped automatically when reaching the width of the box:

Text field with nowrap option

A text field which does not wrap automatically

The point of setting nowrap in the "types"-configuration is that under other "types"-configurations the field will wrap lines. Likewise you can configure an RTE to appear for a field only if a certain type of the record is set and in other cases not.

Default Special Configuration (defaultExtras)

Since "types"-configuration does not apply for FlexForms and since a feature available as special configuration is sometimes needed regardless of type value you can also configure the default value of the special configuration. This is done with a key in the ['columns'][field name] array. Thus, the alternative configuration for the example above could be:

'description' => array(
        'exclude' => 0,
        'label' => 'LLL:EXT:examples/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_examples_dummy.description',
        'config' => array(
                'type' => 'text',
                'cols' => 50,
                'rows' => 3
        ),
        'defaultExtras' => 'nowrap'
)

and the nowrap parameter doesn't appear in the "types"-configuration anymore:

'0' => array('showitem' => 'hidden;;;;1-1-1, record_type;;;;2-2-2, title;;;;3-3-3, description, some_date;;1 '),

This works equally well.