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| Author: | Kasper Skårhøj |
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| Created: | 2002-11-01T00:32:00 |
| Changed by: | Stig Nørgaard Jepsen |
| Changed: | 2006-06-02T18:58:46 |
| Author: | Stig Nørgaard Færch |
| Email: | stig@altforintet.dk |
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Extension Key: constant_editor
Copyright 2000-2002, Stig Nørgaard Færch, <stig@altforintet.dk>
This document is published under the Open Content License
available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
The content of this document is related to TYPO3
- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
Table of Contents¶
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Introduction 1
What does it do? 1
Screenshots 1
Users manual 2
FAQ 2
Administration 2
FAQ 3
Introduction¶
What does it do?¶
This extension is a improved stand-alone version of the WebTemplate, Constant Editor.The main improvement is that it's possible to give non-admins access to the editor. It's also possible to restrict access if you don't want to give full access to all the constant categories. It's even possible to deny access/disable specific constants.
Screenshots¶
Users manual¶
Generally there are three places an admin can setup the level of access to the constant editor. The first place is in the setup page of the extension in the extension manager (screenshot).
On this setup page we have two levels which define the restrictions. The master level and a default overrideable level. They both work the same way. First you choose if you want to allow or deny access and then you specify some categories. If you choose allow access, the chosen categories will be the only accessible categories. Deny is the opposite, - here all but the selected categories will be accessible.
The difference between master and the default settings are:The master settings are non-changeable. This means that when you restrict access on certain categories, you will not be able to change this in any way later on (by user or page tsconfig). This setting is made so it's possible to permanent prevent access to categories which non-admins never should have access to.The default settings restrict access on the categories that are left after the master setting restriction. This setting can be overrided by user or page tsconfig settings. This is described in Administration section.For a non-admin be-user to have access to the extension, the admin has to give access to the Constant Editor module.
FAQ¶
- Possible subsections: FAQ
Administration¶
Important note about cache¶
To make the Constant Editor work properly, you'll have to set:options.clearCache.all = 1Either as UserTS(makes most sense) or PageTS.
If you don't do this, the changes made in the Constant Editor, will not appear instantly.
Category restriction¶
It's possible to override the default restriction which is set up in extension manager. It works almost the same way as in the extension manager with a small difference. In the extension manager you choose either deny or allow mode. But here you are able to choose both modes. It's not really an advantage or a disadvantage for that matter, but that is just the way it works.
The syntax is like this: mod.web_constanteditor.categories.allow = advanced,content
Here we allow access to advanced and content categories. All other categories will be disabled.If deny was used instead, we would have access to everything except the categories advanced and content.
mod.web_constanteditor.categories.deny= advancedmod.web_constanteditor.categories.allow = advanced,content
If we have both deny and allow, the restrictions are run right after each which means that we will only have access to content in this example (as advanced is already filtered by deny).
Constant restriction¶
It's also possible to make restrict settings on the constants themselves. This is done by categories.
This is the syntax: mod.web_constanteditor.constants.content.allow = content.defaultHeaderType,styles.content.links.extTarget
Here we allow the constants content.defaultHeaderType and styles.content.links.extTarget in the category content. All other constants in this category will not be displayed.
It's also possible to use deny as in the other examples.
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