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title: "Breaking: Site sets and static templates have been restructured"
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# Breaking: Site sets and static templates have been restructured {#breaking-site-sets-and-static-templates-restructured}

## Description {#description}

The TypoScript of this extension was shipped twice: the static template read
`Configuration/TypoScript/`, and the site set
`fgtclb/academic-persons-edit` shipped its own `constants.typoscript`
and `setup.typoscript`, each of them a single `@import` of
that folder. The page TSconfig existed only as
`Configuration/TSconfig/page.tsconfig`, reachable through the
auto-included `Configuration/page.tsconfig` and through nothing else — it
was not selectable on a page at all.

Both mechanisms now read one physical copy of every file, and both of them
deliver the extension per component instead of as one block:

-   `Configuration/TypoScript/ProfileEditing/` holds the TypoScript of the
    **Profile editing** content element and is what the static template
    registers *and* what the set points its `typoscript` key at.
-   `Configuration/TSconfig/ProfileEditing/page.tsconfig` holds its page
    TSconfig and is what the page field **Page TSconfig** offers *and*
    what the set points its `pagets` key at.
-   `Configuration/TypoScript/Full/` and
    `Configuration/TSconfig/Full/page.tsconfig` are the aggregates for
    installations that do not use site sets.

The content element is now **hidden by default**. The always-included
`Configuration/page.tsconfig` removes
`academicpersonsedit_profileediting` from the selectable content
element types, and the page TSconfig of the component adds it back — so the
element is offered where it is wanted instead of on every page of every
installation. The TCA registration itself did not move, so the frontend renders
existing records exactly as before. Editing such a record in the backend is a
different matter — read the warning below before upgrading.

## Impact {#impact}

A `sys_template` record that selected the old static template keeps its
stored value. The folder of that value holds no TypoScript of its own any more.
It imports the files of the component folder instead, so it delivers what
**All components** delivers — deprecated, until version 4.0, see
[Deprecation: The static template path of version 2.3](Deprecation-LegacyStaticTemplatePath.html#deprecation-legacy-static-template-path).

A site package that imported `Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript`
or `Configuration/TypoScript/constants.typoscript` by path keeps getting
the configuration, deprecated in the same way. Every other shipped file it
imported by path fails to resolve. `@import` of a missing file is
silent, so this shows up as missing configuration rather than as an error
message.

The **Profile editing** content element is no longer offered in the
backend until the page TSconfig of the component is included, through the site
set or through the page field **Page TSconfig**.

> [!WARNING]
> Do not open an existing **Profile editing** record in the backend
> form on a page that does not include that page TSconfig. An item removed
> through `TCEFORM.tt_content.CType.removeItems` is excluded from
> the **\[ invalid value \]** fallback TYPO3 otherwise adds for a stored
> value it does not know, and the stored value is dropped from the form data
> as well. The field **Type** therefore comes up with nothing
> selected, and **saving the record writes whatever the browser preselected
> into** `CType` — the record silently becomes another content element.
> The frontend keeps rendering it correctly until that happens.
>
> Include the page TSconfig of the component on every page tree that holds
> such records, and do it before editing them.

The set `fgtclb/academic-persons-edit` keeps its name and keeps delivering
everything, so a site configuration that depends on it needs no change.

## Affected Installations {#affected-installations}

Installations that select the static template of this extension in a
`sys_template` record, that import one of the shipped files from an own
site package, or that use the content element without including the page
TSconfig of this extension.

## Migration {#migration}

Replace the static template entry in the `sys_template` record:

| Old entry | New entry |
| --- | --- |
| **Academic Persons Edit Settings (academic_persons_edit)**, stored as `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript` | **Academic Persons Edit: All components (academic_persons_edit)**, stored as `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/Full` — or **Academic Persons Edit: Profile editing (academic_persons_edit)**, stored as `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/ProfileEditing` |

Add the page TSconfig entry, which did not exist before, in the page record of
the site root, tab **Resources**, field **Page TSconfig**:
**Academic Persons Edit: All components (academic_persons_edit)**,
stored as
`EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TSconfig/Full/page.tsconfig`. Without
it the content element is not selectable any more, and existing records of it
lose their `CType` when they are saved from the backend form.

Sites that use the site set instead need no migration — but they must not use
both mechanisms at once, see the **Configuration** chapter.

Adjust every `@import` in an own site package:

| Old path | New path |
| --- | --- |
| `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/constants.typoscript` | `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/ProfileEditing/constants.typoscript` |
| `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript` | `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TypoScript/ProfileEditing/setup.typoscript` |
| `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TSconfig/page.tsconfig` | `EXT:academic_persons_edit/Configuration/TSconfig/ProfileEditing/page.tsconfig` |

A site configuration may name the new component set instead of the aggregate:

| Set | Delivers |
| --- | --- |
| `fgtclb/academic-persons-edit` | Unchanged in name, now delivers through the component set below. |
| `fgtclb/academic-persons-edit-profile-editing` | The **Profile editing** content element only. |