TCEMAIN¶

Configuration for the TYPO3 Core Engine (DataHandler). For general information, see the according section of TYPO3 Explained.

Properties¶

clearCacheCmd
clearCache_disable
clearCache_pageGrandParent
clearCache_pageSiblingChildren
disableHideAtCopy
disablePrependAtCopy
linkHandler
permissions
- Value copyFromParent
- everybody
- group
- groupid
- user
- userid
preview
table
translateToMessage

clearCacheCmd ¶

Datatype

List of integers, all, pages or tags

Description

This allows you to have the frontend cache for additional pages cleared when saving to some page or branch of the page tree.

It it possible to trigger clearing of all caches or just the pages cache. It is also possible to target precise pages either by referring to their ID numbers or to tags that are attached to them.

Attaching tags to page cache is described in the TypoScript Reference.

Examples

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN {
    # Clear the cache for page uid 12 and 23 when saving a record in this page
    clearCacheCmd = 12, 23
    # Clear all frontent page caches of pages
    clearCacheCmd = pages
    # Clear ALL caches
    clearCacheCmd = all
    # Clear cache for all pages tagged with tag "pagetag1"
    clearCacheCmd = cacheTag:pagetag1
}

Note

In order for the pages and all commands to work for non-admin users, make sure to set options.clearCache.pages = 1 or options.clearCache.all = 1 accordingly in the user TSconfig.

clearCache_disable ¶

Datatype: boolean
Description: If set, then the automatic clearing of page cache when records are edited etc. is disabled. This also disables the significance of the two options clearCache_pageSiblingChildren and clearCache_pageGrandParent

clearCache_pageGrandParent ¶

Datatype: boolean
Description: If set, then the grand parent of a page being edited will have the page cache cleared.

clearCache_pageSiblingChildren ¶

Datatype

boolean

Description

If set, then children of all siblings of a page being edited will have the page cache cleared.

Default is that when a page record is edited, the cache for itself, the parent, and siblings (same level) is cleared.

disableHideAtCopy ¶

Datatype

boolean

Description

Disables the hideAtCopy TCA feature if configured for the table.

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.table.pages {
   # Pages will *not* have "(copy)" appended:
   disablePrependAtCopy = 1
   # Pages will *not* be hidden upon copy:
   disableHideAtCopy = 1
}

These settings adjust that a page which is copied will neither have "(copy X)" appended nor be hidden.

The last page in this tree, labeled "Test", is used as original to be copied. The first sub page was copied using the settings from the above example: It is labeled "Test" and is visible exactly like the original page. The page "Test (copy 2)" in the middle was in contrast copied in default mode: The page is hidden and the "(copy X)" suffix is added, if another page with the same named existed already.

Hidden page with added suffix after copying its original page¶

disablePrependAtCopy ¶

Datatype

boolean

Description

Disable the prependAtCopy TCA feature if configured for the table.

The word "prepend" is misleading. The "(copy)" label is actually appended to the record title.

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.table.pages {
   # Pages will *not* have "(copy)" appended:
   disablePrependAtCopy = 1
   # Pages will *not* be hidden upon copy:
   disableHideAtCopy = 1
}

These settings adjust that a page which is copied will neither have "(copy X)" appended nor be hidden.

The last page in this tree, labeled "Test", is used as original to be copied. The first sub page was copied using the settings from the above example: It is labeled "Test" and is visible exactly like the original page. The page "Test (copy 2)" in the middle was in contrast copied in default mode: The page is hidden and the "(copy X)" suffix is added, if another page with the same named existed already.

Hidden page with added suffix after copying its original page¶

linkHandler ¶

Datatype

array of link handler configurations

Description

Contains an array of link handler configurations.

Attention

The keys in this array uniquely identify the type of link and are used in the TYPO3 link format, for example t3://record?identifier=my_content&uid=123. Therefore the key must never be changed or all existing links in the content will stop working.

handler: Fully qualified name of the class containing the backend link handler.
configuration: Configuration for the link handler, depends on the handler. For TYPO3\CMS\Backend\LinkHandler\RecordLinkHandler configuration.table must be defined.
scanBefore / scanAfter: Define the order in which handlers are queried when determining the responsible tab for editing an existing link.
displayBefore / displayAfter: Define the order of how the various tabs are displayed in the link browser.

Changed in version 12.0: Due to the integration of EXT:recordlist into EXT:backend the namespace of LinkHandlers has changed from TYPO3\CMS\Recordlist\LinkHandler to TYPO3\CMS\Backend\LinkHandler. For TYPO3 v12 the moved classes are available as an alias under the old namespace to allow extensions to be compatible with TYPO3 v11 and v12.

Example

The following page TSconfig display an additional tab with the label as title in the linkbrowser. It then saves the link in the format t3://record?identifier=my_content&uid=123. To render the link in the frontend you need to define the same key in the TypoScript setup config.recordLinks.

Tip

For a complete example see also the Record link tutorial in TYPO3 Explained.

Page TSconfig definition for identifier my_content¶

TCEMAIN.linkHandler.my_content {
    handler = TYPO3\CMS\Backend\LinkHandler\RecordLinkHandler
    label = LLL:EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Language/locallang.xlf:link.customTab
    configuration {
        table = tx_myextension_content
    }
    scanBefore = page
}

permissions ¶

Value copyFromParent ¶

The value copyFromParent can be set for each of the page TSconfig TCEMAIN.permissions.* sub keys. If this value is set, the page access permissions are copied from the parent page.

Example: Inherit the group id of the parent page¶

config/system/settings.php | typo3conf/system/settings.php¶

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['defaultPageTSconfig'] .= '
    TCEMAIN.permissions.groupid = copyFromParent
    TCEMAIN.permissions.group = 31
    TCEMAIN.permissions.everybody = 0
';

By default all new pages created by users will inherit the group of the parent page. Members of this group get all permissions. Users not in the group get no permissions.

When an administrator creates a new page she can use the module System > Access to set a different owner group for this new page.

All subpages created to this new page will now automatically have the new pages group. The administrator does not have to set custom TSconfig to achieve this.

This behaviour is similar to the "group sticky bit" in Unix for directories.

everybody ¶

Datatype

list of strings or integer 0-31

Description

Default permissions for everybody who is not the owner user or member of the owning group, key list: show, edit, delete, new, editcontent.

Alternatively, it is allowed to set an integer between 0 and 31, indicating which bits corresponding to the key list should be set: show = 1, edit = 2, delete = 4, new = 8, editcontent = 16.

It also possible to set the value copyFromParent to inherit the value from the parent page.

Default

0

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.permissions {
    # Everybody can at least see the page, normally everybody can do nothing
    everybody = show
}

The page "Community" was created with the settings from the example above. Compared to the two other pages created with default permissions you can see the effect: "Everybody" has read access:

Page with altered permissions for backend users, groups and everybody¶

group ¶

Datatype

list of strings or integer 0-31

Description

Default permissions for group members, key list: show, edit, new, editcontent.

Alternatively, it is allowed to set an integer between 0 and 31, indicating which bits corresponding to the key list should be set: show = 1, edit = 2, delete = 4, new = 8, editcontent = 16.

It also possible to set the value copyFromParent to inherit the value from the parent page.

Default

show,edit,new,editcontent

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.permissions {
    # Group can do anything, normally "delete" is disabled
    group = 31
}

The page "Community" was created with the settings from the example above. Compared to the two other pages created with default permissions you can see the effect: The Backend Group can now also delete the page by default:

Page with altered permissions for backend users, groups and everybody¶

groupid ¶

Datatype

positive integer or string

Description

By default the owner group of a newly created page is set to the main group of the backend user creating the page.

By setting the value of this property to copyFromParent the owner group is copied from the newly created pages parent page.

The owner group of a newly created page can be hardcoded by setting this property to a positive integer greater then zero.

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN {
    # Owner be_groups UID for new pages
    permissions.groupid = 3
}

In this instance, backend group with UID 3 is "test_group". With the configuration above a new page would be created with this group setting instead of the default, even if a user who is not member of that group creates the page:

Page with altered permissions for backend groups¶

user ¶

Datatype

list of strings or integer 0-31

Description

Default permissions for owner user, key list: show, edit, delete, new, editcontent.

Alternatively, it is allowed to set an integer between 0 and 31, indicating which bits corresponding to the key list should be set: show = 1, edit = 2, delete = 4, new = 8, editcontent = 16.

It also possible to set the value copyFromParent to inherit the value from the parent page.

Default

show,edit,delete,new,editcontent

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.permissions {
    # User can do anything, this is identical to the default value
    user = 31
}

userid ¶

Datatype

positive integer or string

Description

By default the owner of a newly created page is the user that created or copied the page.

By setting the value of this property to copyFromParent the owner group is copied from the newly created pages parent page.

When this property is set to a positive integer the owner of new pages is hardcoded to the user of that uid.

Example

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN {
    # Owner be_users UID for new pages
    permissions.userid = 2
}

In this instance, backend user with UID 2 is "test". With the configuration above a new page would be created with this owner setting instead of the default, even if another user creates the page:

Page with altered permissions for backend users¶

preview ¶

Datatype

array

Description

Configure preview link generated for the save+view button and other frontend view related buttons in the backend. This allows to have different preview URLs depending on the record type. A common use case is to have previews for blog or news records, and this feature allows you to define a different preview page for content elements as well, which might be handy if those are stored in a sysfolder.

EXT:site_package/Configuration/page.tsconfig¶

TCEMAIN.preview {
    disableButtonForDokType = 199, 254, 255
    <table name> {
        previewPageId = 123
        useDefaultLanguageRecord = 0
        fieldToParameterMap {
            uid = tx_myext_pi1[showUid]
        }
        additionalGetParameters {
            tx_myext_pi1.special = HELLO # results in tx_myext_pi1[special]
        }
    }
}

The previewPageId is the uid of the page to use for preview. If this setting is omitted the current page will be used. If the current page is not a normal page, the root page will be chosen.

The disableButtonForDokType setting allows you to disable the preview button for a given list of doktypes. If none are configured, this defaults to: 199, 254, 255 (Spacer, Folder and Recycler).

The useDefaultLanguageRecord defaults to 1 and ensures that translated records will use the uid of the default record for the preview link. You may disable this, if your extension can deal with the uid of translated records.

The fieldToParameterMap is a mapping which allows you to select fields of the record to be included as GET-parameters in the preview link. The key specifies the field name and the value specifies the GET-parameter name.

Finally additionalGetParameters allow you to add arbitrary GET-parameters and even override others. If the plugin on your target page shows a list of records by default you will also need something like tx_myext_pi1.action = show to ensure the record details are displayed.

The core automatically sets the "no_cache" and the "L" parameter. The language matches the language of the current record. You may override each parameter by using the additionalGetParameters configuration option.

Note

Make sure not to set options.saveDocView.<table name> = 0, otherwise the save+view button will not be displayed when editing records of your table.

Attention

The configuration has to be defined for the page containing the records and previewPageId (for example sysfolder holding the records is located outside of your root)

table ¶

Processing options for tables. The table name is added, for instance TCEMAIN.table.pages.disablePrependAtCopy = 1 or TCEMAIN.table.tt_content.disablePrependAtCopy = 1.

translateToMessage ¶

Datatype

string

Default

Translate to %s:

Description

Defines the string that will be prepended to some field values if you copy an element to another language version. This applies to all fields where the TCA columns property l10n_mode is set to prefixLangTitle.

The special string "%s" will be replaced with the language title.

You can globally disable the prepending of the string by setting translateToMessage to an empty string. You can disable the message to a certain field by setting the l10n_mode to an empty string.

Example

Set a German prefix:

PageTSconfig¶

TCEMAIN {
    translateToMessage = Bitte in "%s" übersetzen:
}

Disable the [Translate to ...] prefix:

PageTSconfig¶

 TCEMAIN {
     translateToMessage =
 }