DEPRECATION WARNING

This documentation is not using the current rendering mechanism and is probably outdated. The extension maintainer should switch to the new system. Details on how to use the rendering mechanism can be found here.

Flexform

Each time you want a Grid Element to be more than just a structured multicolumn container with lots of different content elements, you can make use of the Flexform Configuration field of the CE backend layout record.

We thought that even though it is no good idea to store relations as CSV lists in XML structures within a database field, flexforms are still very useful when it comes to configurational stuff.

Anything that has nothing to do with the relation to the actual content elements can be put here using the same syntax as in any other flexform field:

  • Checkboxes and/or radio buttons to enable or disable certain behaviours
  • Selectors to get different variants of the Grid Element in the frontend
  • Input fields for additional information besides the usual content elements
  • Textareas for internal notes to the editors

You could even copy and paste TemplaVoila data structures here, which might be helpful during a migration process from FCEs to Grid Elements.

Anything defined in the configuration will show up in the Plugin Options of the Grid Element’s editing form.

Currently any type of form field value will be transferred to the data set of the Grid Element record while rendering it in the frontend. They will be prefixed with “ flexform_ ” to make sure that they don’t override any other field with the same name, but still can be accessed via the usual TypoScript functions.

Sections are not supported by the frontend rendering process yet.