Configuration 

This extension ships its frontend TypoScript and its backend page TSconfig in two forms: as TYPO3 site sets, and as classic static templates plus page TSconfig files that are selected on a page. Both forms read the very same files, so they configure an installation identically.

Pick one of them per site and stay with it — see Do not combine both for what happens otherwise.

What the sets contain 

This extension ships four content elements, so it ships four component sets and one aggregate set that depends on all of them.

All four content elements are driven by one Extbase plugin, so they share one TypoScript block, plugin.tx_academicpartners . That block is shipped once, in Configuration/TypoScript/, and every component includes it. Which component sets a site names therefore decides which content elements the backend offers, not how much TypoScript is loaded.

Set Delivers
fgtclb/academic-partners-list The Partner List content element.
fgtclb/academic-partners-map The Partner Map content element.
fgtclb/academic-partners-partnerships-list The Partners Linked content element.
fgtclb/academic-partners-partnerships-teaser The Partner Logo Teaser content element.
fgtclb/academic-partners Everything above. This is the set to use unless you deliberately want a subset, and it is the name this extension published before the sets were cut per component — a site configuration that depends on it needs no change.

Every content element set depends on fgtclb/academic-base-ctype-group, the set of EXT:academic_base that labels the content element group all academic extensions sort their elements into.

What each content element shows, and the options an editor sets on it, is described in For integrators.

The content elements are hidden by default 

EXT:academic_partners hides all four of its content elements for the whole installation and brings them back per component. Whichever of the two mechanisms below you use, it is what makes an element selectable in the backend again — without one of them the content element is not offered, and existing records keep rendering.

What the sets do not control 

The page type Academic partner (doktype 40) and its backend layout AcademicPartner are not part of any set, and enabling or not enabling a set never changes them.

That is deliberate, not an oversight. Both are values stored on pages records: a page carries doktype = 40 and backend_layout = pagets__AcademicPartner long before any site configuration is read. Were they delivered by an opt-in set, every page tree on a site that does not use that set would show [ MISSING LABEL ] for the layout, the layout could not be picked for a new page, and the page type would disappear from the page tree wizard.

They are therefore registered installation-wide — the page type in TCA (Configuration/TCA/Overrides/pages.php), the backend layout in the always-included Configuration/page.tsconfig — and stay available on every site of the installation.

What a set does deliver for that page type is its frontend rendering: the page object that picks the Fluid template of the page type is part of the shared TypoScript block, so a site that includes no set of this extension renders such a page with whatever its own site package defines.

The content of a partner page 

A partner page renders the content elements of its main column ( colPos = 0 ) below the partner data, in their manual order and in the language of the page. Any set of this extension, or the static template of the shared block, delivers that, and no other set is needed for it.

The content is the variable partnerContent of the page object, defined inside the condition on the partner page type, so it exists on partner pages only. It is a CONTENT object that renders the records through the tt_content object of the site, and it works for a FLUIDTEMPLATE and a PAGEVIEW page object alike.

To render another column, or to slide the content from the parent pages, change the variable inside the same condition:

EXT:my_sitepackage/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript
[page && traverse(page, "doktype") == 40]
  page.10.variables.partnerContent {
    select.where = {#colPos}=1
  }
[END]
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A page template of your own renders it as {partnerContent -> f:format.raw()} .

Changed in version 3.0

The layout of a partner page 

A partner page renders inside the page layout of the site package, the way the other pages of the site do: the page template declares a layout and fills its section Main . The layout is Default unless a setting names another one, which is what bk2k/bootstrap-package and most site packages provide.

Site setting / constant Default Meaning
plugin.tx_academicpartners.page.layout Default The Fluid layout of the site package the partner page renders its section Main into. An empty value is read as Default.

It is a site setting of the aggregate set fgtclb/academic-partners, and a constant of the same name for a site on the static templates. A site that depends on a component set alone gets the default, but the site settings editor does not offer the setting there. Depend on the aggregate set to configure it.

The page template reaches it as the variable partnerPageLayout of the page object, so it works on a FLUIDTEMPLATE and a PAGEVIEW page object alike.

A site package without a layout Default gets the fallback layout of this extension, which renders the section Main and nothing else: the page renders without the header, navigation and footer of the site, as it did up to 2.x, rather than failing. A layout Default of the site package wins over it. The fallback exists for Default only: a layout the setting names has to exist in the site package, or the partner page fails as any page with a missing Fluid layout does.

The parts of a partner page 

The section Main renders five partials, each of which can be replaced on its own:

Partial Renders
Partner/Page/Header.html The title of the partner and the subtitle of the page, in one element <header class="ace-header"> .
Partner/Page/Media.html The first image of the page, through the shared image partial of EXT:academic_base.
Partner/Page/Categories.html The categories assigned to the page, grouped by category type.
Partner/Page/Address.html The address of the partner.
Partner/Page/Content.html The content elements, the variable partnerContent described above.

Every partial receives all variables of the page: {partner} , {mapSettings} , {images} , {partnerContent} , {pageRecord} and those of the site package's page object. {pageRecord} is the record of the page on both page object types, {data} of a FLUIDTEMPLATE page object and {page.pageRecord} of a PAGEVIEW one. The subtitle is its field {pageRecord.subtitle} .

The templates and partials of the page type are registered at the key 50 of the page object. Register a directory of your own with a higher key, and its files win:

EXT:my_sitepackage/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript
# FLUIDTEMPLATE: a directory holding Partner/Page/Header.html
page.10.partialRootPaths.75 = EXT:my_sitepackage/Resources/Private/Partials/

# PAGEVIEW: a directory holding Partials/Partner/Page/Header.html
page.10.paths.75 = EXT:my_sitepackage/Resources/Private/
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A site package that registers its own paths above 50 needs no line at all - a PAGEVIEW site package at paths.100 , for example: a Partials/Partner/Page/Header.html of its own wins already. An override of the whole Pages/AcademicPartner.html keeps working the same way, and renders without a layout, as before.

Changed in version 3.0

Include the site set 

Add the set to the config.yaml of the site that should offer the content elements:

config/sites/my-site/config.yaml (diff)
 base: 'https://example.com/'
 rootPageId: 1
+dependencies:
+  - fgtclb/academic-partners
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See also TYPO3 Explained, Using a site set as dependency in a site.

Include static templates 

For an installation that still configures its frontend through sys_template records, the same files are registered as static templates and as selectable page TSconfig files.

Include static TypoScript 

Edit the sys_template record of the site root and add the entry to Include static (from extensions):

Entry Delivers
Academic Partners: Partners List (academic_partners) The TypoScript of the Partner List content element.
Academic Partners: Partners Map (academic_partners) The same for Partner Map.
Academic Partners: Partnerships List (academic_partners) The same for Partners Linked.
Academic Partners: Partnerships Teaser (academic_partners) The same for Partner Logo Teaser.
Academic Partners: All components (academic_partners) Every component this extension ships, in one entry.
Academic Partners: Shared plugin settings and page rendering (academic_partners) The shared plugin.tx_academicpartners block and the page object of the page type, on their own. This is the entry an installation stored before the configuration was cut per component, and it keeps working — but it does not make any content element selectable, which the page TSconfig below does.

Include static page TSconfig 

Edit the page record of the site root, tab Resources, field Page TSconfig, and add the entry:

Entry Delivers
Academic Partners: Partners List (academic_partners) Makes the Partner List content element selectable, and configures its entry in the new content element wizard.
Academic Partners: Partners Map (academic_partners) The same for Partner Map.
Academic Partners: Partnerships List (academic_partners) The same for Partners Linked.
Academic Partners: Partnerships Teaser (academic_partners) The same for Partner Logo Teaser.
Academic Partners: All components (academic_partners) Every component this extension ships, in one entry.

The setting is inherited by every page below the one it is set on.

The category filters 

The filter form of the Partner List and the Partner Map offers one select per category type of the group partners. Three settings change which of them it offers and how, for the whole site:

Site setting and constant Default Meaning
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.categoryTypes empty The category types to offer, in this order, as a comma separated list of type identifiers, for example sdg,region. Empty offers every type that has a category, in the order of the category types of the group.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.visibleCount 0 How many filters the form shows right away. The others follow in a More filters section the visitor opens, which is open already while one of its filters has a value. 0 shows every filter.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.hideDisabledOptions 0 Leaves out a category no listed partner carries, instead of offering it as a disabled option. A selected category is always offered. A filter whose categories are all left out still renders, with its "All" option only.
config/sites/my-site/settings.yaml
plugin:
  tx_academicpartners:
    filter:
      categoryTypes: 'sdg,region'
      visibleCount: 1
      hideDisabledOptions: true
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The settings are site settings of the aggregate set fgtclb/academic-partners and constants of the same names for a site on static templates. A site that depends on fgtclb/academic-partners-list or fgtclb/academic-partners-map alone gets the defaults, but the site settings editor does not offer the settings there — both content elements read them, and a set declares settings only for itself.

A type is offered only when at least one category of that type exists, and an identifier that is no type of the group is ignored. The settings decide what the form offers, not what the list accepts: a link that filters by a category of a type the form does not offer still filters the list.

The "All" option of a filter 

The first option of each filter, the one that selects no category, reads the label sys_category.partners.allOptions.<type> of this extension, and falls back to sys_category.partners.allOptions ("All options") where a type has none. The extension ships no label per type; a site adds them in TypoScript, for every content element of the extension or for one plugin:

EXT:my_sitepackage/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript
plugin.tx_academicpartners._LOCAL_LANG {
  default.sys_category.partners.allOptions.region = All regions
  de.sys_category.partners.allOptions.region = Alle Regionen
}

# Only in the partner map:
plugin.tx_academicpartners_map._LOCAL_LANG.default.sys_category.partners.allOptions.region = All regions
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A language file override works as well, as for any label of this extension: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['locallangXMLOverride'] on TYPO3 v13, $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['LANG']['resourceOverrides'] on TYPO3 v14, each pointing from EXT:academic_partners/Resources/Private/Language/locallang.xlf to a file of the site package.

Templates 

The partial Partner/DemandCategories.html renders the selects from the variable {filterTypes} : {filterTypes.visible} and {filterTypes.more} hold the identifiers of the offered types, in their order, before and behind More filters. Where that variable does not reach the partial, in a template that renders the partial with arguments of its own instead of {_all} , it offers every type with a category, as before, and the filter types and the visible count have no effect there. To use them, pass filterTypes on in a template that renders the partial.

New in version 2.4

Up to 2.3 the form offered every type with a category, all of them right away and with one "All" label, and anything else needed an override of the partial.

Active filters, reset link and result count 

Three switches add to the filter form of the Partner List and the Partner Map, for the whole site. All three are off by default.

Site setting and constant Default Meaning
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.showActiveFilters 0 One tag per selected category, below the form. Each tag links to the list without that selection, every other selection and the sorting kept.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.showReset 0 A Reset all filters link to the page without any list argument, so the list shows what the content element presets. Offered after the visitor selected something, while a category is selected or preset by the content element, also once the visitor removed the preset. On the page as the editor preset it, the link would lead to the page shown.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.filter.showResultCount 0 The number of partners found, for example "12 partners found". In a paginated list it counts every partner, not those of the page shown, and in the map the partners it draws.
config/sites/my-site/settings.yaml
plugin:
  tx_academicpartners:
    filter:
      showActiveFilters: true
      showReset: true
      showResultCount: true
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The filter form with the region North Rhine-Westphalia selected, below it a removable tag North Rhine-Westphalia, a link Reset all filters and the line with the number of partners found.

A filtered Partner List with one active filter tag, the reset link and the number of partners found.

The settings are site settings of the aggregate set fgtclb/academic-partners and constants of the same names, like the filter settings above.

  • A tag shows a category in the language of the page.
  • A tag stays a tag when the editor preset its category: removing it shows the list without that category, and the reset link brings the preset back.
  • Where the content element hides the filter, the visitor cannot change it, and neither tags nor the reset link are shown. The count is.
  • Every selected category is a tag, also one whose type the form does not offer (see the filter types above), for example a preset one. Removing it works like for any other tag.
  • The tags and the reset link come from the partial Partner/ActiveFilters.html, the count from Partner/ResultCount.html. Both are rendered by Partner/SortingAndFilters.html, so a project that overrides that partial does not show them until it renders them as well. The partials use the classes ace-active-filters on the list of tags, ace-active-filter on a tag, ace-link on the links and ace-count on the count, and bring no styles.
  • The reset link needs the variable {visitorSelection} , which the list action assigns. A template that renders the partials with arguments of its own has to pass it on, or the list offers no reset link.
  • The labels are filter.activeFilters.label , filter.activeFilters.remove , filter.reset , list.resultCount.singular and list.resultCount.plural of this extension. The count labels take the number as %d, the remove label the category title as %s.

New in version 3.0

The three settings and the two partials.

The partner map 

The Partner Map content element draws its partners on a map, with the tiles of OpenStreetMap by default. Where the map is centred, how far it zooms and where its tiles come from is one configuration for the whole site:

Site setting and constant Default Meaning
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.centerLatitude 51.1657 The latitude the map is centred on while it shows no partner, from -90 to 90, with a decimal point.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.centerLongitude 10.4515 The longitude of that centre, from -180 to 180, with a decimal point.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.zoom 6 The zoom level while the map shows no partner. 0 shows the whole world.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.maxZoom 18 How far the map zooms in at most. A map with partners fits itself around them, and around a single partner it zooms in up to this level. Lower it to keep the surroundings of that partner in view.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.padding 50 The space in pixels between the edge of the map and the outermost partners.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.tileUrl https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png The URL template the map loads its tiles from, with the placeholders {z}, {x} and {y}, and {s} for a subdomain.
plugin.tx_academicpartners.map.attribution the attribution the map always showed, which credits OpenStreetMap The attribution the map shows for its tiles. It is HTML, and the map renders it as HTML.
config/sites/my-site/settings.yaml
plugin:
  tx_academicpartners:
    map:
      centerLatitude: 47.5162
      centerLongitude: 14.5501
      zoom: 7
      maxZoom: 14
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The settings are site settings of the set fgtclb/academic-partners-map, so the site settings editor offers them to a site that depends on that set or on fgtclb/academic-partners. A site configured through static templates sets the constants instead.

The defaults are the values the map used before they could be configured, and the map falls back to them for every value it cannot use: an empty value, a number that is not a number or lies outside its range. The centre is one value, so a latitude it cannot use discards the longitude as well. An empty tile URL or attribution uses the default, because a tile server's terms usually require an attribution. Whether the tile server delivers tiles up to the maximum zoom, and what its attribution has to say, is up to the site. The map allows the host of the tile URL in the Content Security Policy of its page, see Content Security Policy.

Which partners the map draws, and how wide it is 

Which partners the map draws, and the option Map width of each content element, are described on the page of the content element, see Partner Map.

The files the map loads 

The map is drawn with Leaflet and its marker cluster plugin, both built from their npm packages into Resources/Public/JavaScript/vendor/<library>/<version>/:

Library Version Module Stylesheets
Leaflet 1.9.4 leaflet leaflet.css
Leaflet.markercluster 1.5.3 leaflet.markercluster MarkerCluster.css, MarkerCluster.Default.css

The import map of the extension publishes the modules under those names, and the map module imports them. No global variable is set. The partial Partner/Map.html registers the stylesheets of the two libraries, which the map needs to work, together with the map module. The partial names the marker icon of this extension, in Resources/Public/Images/Map/, in the attribute data-academic-partners-marker-icon of the map element, and the markers load their images from that directory. Without the attribute they show the icon of Leaflet.

Another extension or the theme that maps leaflet as well shares the map's import map entry: the page loads one of the two Leaflets for every module.

Styling the map 

The extension ships no stylesheet of its own for the map, the site package styles it. One rule is not optional: the map element needs a height. Leaflet draws into <div id="map" class="ace-map"> , and an element without a height shows no map at all.

The stylesheet of the site package
#map {
    height: 500px;
}
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Two more rules are worth taking over where the theme needs them: a z-index: 0 on .leaflet-pane , .leaflet-top and .leaflet-bottom , which keeps the map behind a sticky header of the site, and width: auto !important on the images of the tiles and the markers, which keeps an image rule of the theme such as img { max-width: 100% } from distorting them. The stylesheets of the libraries come after the stylesheets of the page, so a rule that overrides one of theirs needs a more specific selector, such as .leaflet-container .leaflet-pane . The stylesheet of the development instances of the mono repository carries all three: _academic-partners.scss of EXT:academics_dev_site. Before version 3.0 the extension shipped them in Css/frontend/map.css, see Breaking: The partner map ships no stylesheet.

The map on other pages 

The map is rendered by the partial Partner/Map.html, and a template of the site package can render it too. It takes these arguments:

Argument Meaning
partners The partners to draw.
partner A single partner instead. The partial renders nothing when the partner has no coordinates.
map The map settings above. Without them the map uses the defaults.
assets The switch of the map script. Without it the partial loads the script.

The page of the page type Academic partner does not show a map, but its template and its partials have everything a map for the partner of the page needs: {partner} , the map settings of the site as {mapSettings} , and the switch of the map script as {mapAssets} . The data processor partner-data adds all three, for a FLUIDTEMPLATE and for a PAGEVIEW page object. It takes the settings from the site settings and the constants, not from plugin.tx_academicpartners.settings.map , so a value a site sets in the TypoScript setup of the plugin reaches the content element only. A site package that shows the location of the partner below the address overrides the partial Partner/Page/Address.html, see The parts of a partner page, and renders in it:

EXT:my_sitepackage/Resources/Private/Partials/Partner/Page/Address.html
<f:render partial="Partner/Map" arguments="{partner: partner, map: mapSettings, assets: mapAssets}" />
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A single partner is where the maximum zoom matters most: the map zooms in on the partner up to that level.

The partial draws one map per page. Its element ids are fixed, so on a page that renders it twice, the content element on a partner page that shows a map for example, only the first map is drawn and the second stays empty.

The settings reach the map as data attributes of the element <div id="map"> , which the partial renders:

Attribute Setting
data-academic-partners-center-lat centerLatitude
data-academic-partners-center-lng centerLongitude
data-academic-partners-zoom zoom
data-academic-partners-max-zoom maxZoom
data-academic-partners-padding padding
data-academic-partners-tile-url tileUrl
data-academic-partners-attribution attribution
data-academic-partners-marker-icon none, the partial writes the URL of the marker icon of this extension

An attribute that is missing, empty or out of range uses the default, and the two coordinates are used only together.

A project that overrides Templates/Partner/Map.html keeps its template. It renders the map without these attributes, so its map uses the defaults until it renders the partial or adds the attributes to its own map element. A project that already ships a partial Partner/Map.html of its own overrides the shipped one. It is rendered with partners and map .

The header of the content elements 

The header and the subheader an editor enters on a Partner List, Partner Map, Partners Linked or Partner Logo Teaser content element are rendered by the content element layout of the site, as for any other content element. The layouts of EXT:fluid_styled_content and of the bootstrap package do that, and the plugins render no header of their own.

A site whose content element layout renders no header, because its element templates render it instead, lets the plugins render it:

TypoScript constants
plugin.tx_academicpartners.renderContentElementHeader = 1
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On a site that uses the site set, that is the site setting Render the content element header in the plugins of fgtclb/academic-partners. The templates then render the header partial of EXT:fluid_styled_content above their output, for every header layout except Hidden. Do not switch it on where the layout renders the header: the header then appears twice.

The extension does not require EXT:fluid_styled_content. It adds the partial path of that extension below every other one, so a site package that ships a Header/All.html of its own renders that one instead, and a site without EXT:fluid_styled_content provides the partial that way.

For the header layout Default, the partial takes the heading level from plugin.tx_academicpartners.settings.defaultHeaderType , which is mapped from the constant styles.content.defaultHeaderType of EXT:fluid_styled_content. A site that does not include the TypoScript of EXT:fluid_styled_content sets the setting itself; without it, such a header renders as an empty <header> element.

Load the script or bring your own 

The Partner Map content element loads the module @fgtclb/academic-partners/frontend/map.js on the page that carries it, together with the stylesheets of the map libraries the module imports, see The partner map. A page template that renders the partial Partner/Map.html loads the same. No other content element of this extension loads a script.

The module and the stylesheets of the libraries are switched off together, per site, for an installation that draws the map with a script of its own:

Site setting and constant Default Off means
plugin.tx_academicpartners.assets.js true The page loads neither the module nor the stylesheets of Leaflet and Leaflet.markercluster.

With the site set, it is a site setting of fgtclb/academic-partners-map, next to the other settings of the map:

config/sites/my-site/settings.yaml
plugin.tx_academicpartners.assets.js: false
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With the static template, it is the TypoScript constant of the same name:

Constants of the root sys_template record
plugin.tx_academicpartners.assets.js = 0
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The map does not work without a script. The markup stays exactly as it is: the map element <div id="map"> with the settings of the map as data attributes, and the hidden list <ul id="map-partners"> with one item per partner, carrying its coordinates, name, description and link. A visitor sees an empty map element until a script of your own draws the map from those two elements, with the stylesheets of whichever library it uses.

A page template hands the switch to the partial as the argument assets , see The map on other pages. A template that does not pass it loads the script whatever the setting says. A project that overrides Partials/Partner/Map.html keeps whatever its copy loads.

Do not combine both 

A site that uses the site set and the static template reads the shipped files twice. The site set is applied before the sys_template record, so the second read happens after the site settings and after config/sites/<site>/constants.typoscript — and it resets every constant the extension ships a default for back to that default. For this extension that is the plugin.tx_academicpartners constants block: the three Fluid root paths, the number of page links of the pagination, the settings of the category filters and of the partner map, the content element header switch and the script switch.

Nothing else is damaged: the Constants and Setup fields of the sys_template record, the page TSconfig of a page and the page TSconfig files selected on a page are all applied afterwards and still win. Use one mechanism per site and the question does not arise.

Search, permissions and the wizard 

The Integration chapter of academic_base covers what an installation runs beside the academic extensions: an index queue for partner pages with EXT:solr, the tables, fields and content types an editor group needs as a preset for b13/permission-sets, and how to move, rename or order the academic content elements in the new content element wizard.