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RECORDS

Properties

Property

Data types

stdWrap

Default

categories =

categories-list /stdWrap

yes

conf =

cObject

no

dontCheckPid =

boolean /stdWrap

yes

0

source =

records-list /stdWrap

yes

stdWrap =

stdWrap

yes

tables =

list of tables /stdWrap

yes

wrap =

wrap /stdWrap

yes

Introduction

This object is meant for displaying lists of records from a variety of tables. Contrary to the CONTENT object, it does not allow very fine selections of records (as it has no "select" property).

The register-key SYS_LASTCHANGED is updated with the tstamp-field of the records selected which has a higher value than the current.

Note

Records with parent ids (pid's) for non-accessible pages (that is hidden, timed or access-protected pages) are normally not selected. Pages may be of any type, except recycler. Disable the check with the dontCheckPid option.

Property details

source

Property

source

Data type

records-list /stdWrap

Description

List of record-id's, optionally with prepended table-names.

Example:

source = tt_content_34, 45, tt_links_56

categories

Property

categories

Data type

categories-list /stdWrap

Description

Comma-separated list of system categories uid's. Records related to these categories will be retrieved and made available for rendering.

Only records from the tables defined in the tables property will be retrieved.

This property has the following sub-property:

relation

Name of the categories-relation field to use for building the list of categorized records, as there can be several such fields on a given table.

Warning

If both source and categories properties are defined, the source property will take precedence, as it is considered more precisely targeted.

tables

Property

tables

Data type

list of tables /stdWrap

Description

List of accepted tables. For items listed in the source property which are not prepended with a table name, the first table will be used.

Records from tables configured in conf are also allowed.

Example:

tables = tt_content, tt_address, tt_links
conf.tx_myexttable = TEXT
conf.tx_myexttable.value = Hello world

This adds the tables tt_content, tt_address, tt_links and tx_myexttable.

conf

Property

conf.[table name]

Data type

cObject

Description

Configuration array, which defines the rendering for records from table table name.

Default

If this is not defined, the rendering of the records is done with the top-level object [table name] - just like when ".renderObj" is not set for the cObject CONTENT!

dontCheckPid

Property

dontCheckPid

Data type

boolean /stdWrap

Description

Normally a record cannot be selected, if its parent page (pid) is not accessible for the website user. This option disables that check.

Default

0

wrap

Property

wrap

Data type

wrap /stdWrap

Description

Wraps the output. Executed before stdWrap.

stdWrap

Property

stdWrap

Data type

->stdWrap

Description

Executed after wrap.

Examples

Selection with source

The following example would display some related content referenced from the page properties.

page.42 = RECORDS
page.42 {
   source.field = tx_examples_related_content
             tables = tt_content
}

Since no conf property is defined, the rendering will look for a top-level TypoScript object bearing the name of the table to be rendered (e.g. "tt_content").

Selection with source II

20 = RECORDS
20 {
        source = 10,12
        dontCheckPid = 1
        tables = tt_content
}

This example loads the content elements with the UIDs 10 and 12 no matter where these elements are located and whether these pages are accessible for the current user.

Selection with categories

If you would want to display categorized content with a RECORDS obeject you could do it like this:

categorized_content = RECORDS
categorized_content {
        categories.field = selected_categories
        categories.relation.field = category_field
        tables = tt_content
        conf.tt_content = TEXT
        conf.tt_content {
                stdWrap.field = header
                stdWrap.typolink.parameter = {field:pid}#{field:uid}
                stdWrap.typolink.parameter.insertData = 1
                stdWrap.wrap = <li>|</li>
        }
        wrap = <ul>|</ul>
}

Contrary to the previous example, in this case the conf property is present and defines a very simple rendering of each content element (i.e. the header with a direct link to the content element).

However the same can be achieved with a FLUIDTEMPLATE and data processing. This way templating is much more flexible. See the following example from the system extension fluid_styled_content:

tt_content.menu_categorized_content =< lib.contentElement
tt_content.menu_categorized_content {
   templateName = MenuCategorizedContent
   dataProcessing {
      10 = TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\DataProcessing\DatabaseQueryProcessor
      10 {
         table = tt_content
         selectFields = tt_content.*
         groupBy = uid
         pidInList.data = leveluid : 0
         recursive = 99
         join.data = field:selected_categories
         join.wrap = sys_category_record_mm ON uid = sys_category_record_mm.uid_foreign AND sys_category_record_mm.uid_local IN(|)
         where.data = field:category_field
         where.wrap = tablenames='tt_content' and fieldname='|'
         orderBy = tt_content.sorting
         as = content
      }
   }
}