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['palettes'] section

"Palettes" represent a way to move less frequently used form fields out of sight. Palettes are groups of fields which are associated with another field in the main form. When this field is activated the palette fields are displayed. In the backend, "palettes" are known as "secondary options".

Let's add a palette to the example from the previous section. The palette itself is defined like this:

'palettes' => array(
        '1' => array('showitem' => 'enforce_date'),
),

Now we change the "types" configuration to link the palette to the some_date field:

'0' => array('showitem' => 'hidden, record_type, title, some_date;;1 '),

When a palette exists, an icon appears next to the relevant field:

A collapsed palette with the icon to expand it

Clicking on this icon, the palette is revealed:

The expanded palette

Palette display can be activated permanently by checking the "Show secondary options" box at the bottom of any forms screen:

Check this box to make all palettes expanded all the time

Note

This checkbox may be hidden per TSconfig, so it may not appear all the time.

Properties

Property	Data Type
canNotCollapse	boolean
isHiddenPalette	boolean
showitem	string

Property details

showitem

Key

showitem

Datatype

string

(list of field names)

Description

Required.

Configuration of the displayed order of fields in the palette.

Important

A field name must not appear in more than one palette and not more than once in the same palette.

canNotCollapse

Key

canNotCollapse

Datatype

boolean

Description

If set, then this palette is not allowed to 'collapse' in the TCEforms-display.

This basically means that if "Show secondary options" is not on, this palette is still displayed in the main form and not linked with an icon.

isHiddenPalette

Key

isHiddenPalette

Datatype

boolean

Description

(Available since TYPO3 CMS 4.7)

If set, then this palette will never be shown, but the fields of the palette are technically rendered as hidden elements in the TCEForm.

This is sometimes useful when you want to set a field's value by JavaScript from another user-defined field. You can also use it along with the IRRE (TCA type inline) foreign_selector feature if you don't want the relation field to be displayed (it must be technically present and rendered though, that's why you should put it to a hidden palette in that case).

Line breaks

By default all fields in a palette are shown on a single line. It is possible to place them on several lines by using the --linebreak-- keyword.

Example

'palettes' => array(
   '1' => array('showitem' => 'salutation, firstname, lastname, --linebreak--, mobile, phone, fax, --linebreak--, email, email_work'),
)