Introduction 

What does it do? 

The Education Persons extension provides a generic person directory tailored for the education and research sector. It extends the TYPO3 fe_users table with academic profile data and introduces several sub-entity types for structured profile information.

The Person model extends AbstractEntity (not FrontendUser, which was removed in TYPO3 v12) and manually maps the relevant fe_users fields (username, firstName, lastName, email, telephone, www, company, title, image). The persistence mapping to the fe_users table is configured via Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php.

The extension ships three content element plugins that cover the full lifecycle: listing, detail view, and frontend editing of person records.

Features 

• Person model based on fe_users -- extends AbstractEntity with manual property mapping to fe_users, no dependency on FrontendUser
• Record type via tx_extbase_type -- uses the tx_extbase_type column as type selector; the record type value is the FQCN Davitec\DvEducationPersons\Domain\Model\Person
• Academic profile fields -- title, department, position, teaching area, consultation hours, room, slug, and more

• Sub-entities for structured data:

  • VitaEntry -- career milestones and education history
  • Publication -- academic publications and papers
  • Research -- research projects and interests
  • Teaching -- courses and teaching activities
  • Link -- external links and social profiles
• PersonList plugin (CType dveducationpersons_personlist) -- paginated list view with text search, dynamic department filter, A-Z letter navigation, and a reset button when filters are active. Uses POST method; the list action is non-cacheable.
• PersonDetail plugin (CType dveducationpersons_persondetail) -- full profile display with all sub-entities
• PersonEdit plugin (CType dveducationpersons_personedit) -- frontend editing for logged-in users; both edit and update actions are non-cacheable. Uses manual form field names (not Extbase object binding) to avoid HMAC hash issues with the fe_users mapping.
• Dynamic department filter -- department options in the search form are loaded dynamically from existing person records via findDistinctDepartments() (QueryBuilder-based), not from a static list
• cHash exclusion -- all plugin parameters are excluded from cHash calculation in ext_localconf.php to prevent cHash errors with the search form
• FlexForm configuration -- per-plugin settings for detail page, list page, items per page, and department whitelist filter
• TypoScript constants -- global configuration via the TYPO3 constant editor
• Full German translation included
• TYPO3 v12 and v13 LTS support

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