Create some initial content

Recommended page structure

Create at least the following pages:

  • "Home": Root page of the site, containing the root TypoScript template record and the start page content: Normal page.

  • "Organization Storage": A folder to store the news in: Folder

Usually you will also need

  • "Organization list": A list page to display all news on: Normal page

Your page tree could, for example look like that:

Home
├── Some page
├── ...
├── Organization list
├── ...
└── Storage
   ├── Other storage
   ├── ...
   └── Organization Storage

Create organization records

Before any organization record can be shown in the frontend those need to be created.

  1. Go to the module Web > List

  2. Go to the "Organization Storage" Folder that you created in the first step.

  3. Use the icon in the topbar +

  4. Click on the link Organization

  5. Fill out all desired fields and click Save

Add plugins: display the Organization List in the frontend

A plugin is used to render a defined selection of records in the frontend. Follow these steps to add a plugin for list view to a page:

List page

  1. Go to module Web > Page and to the previously created page "Organization list".

  2. Add a new content element and select the entry Plugins > Organization list

  3. Switch to the tab Plugin where you can define the plugins settings. The most important settings are Show items and Record Storage Page

  4. The field Show items has two options of all users list and of current user list. the option shows all the records available in the configured storage folder and of current user list opton only shows the Organization records of current logged in user.Choose one of the option depending upon the requirement.

  5. Fill the field Record Storage Page by selecting the sysfolder you created in the beginning of the tutorial.

  6. Save the plugin.

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