What does it do?¶

In short, TemplaVoilà! Plus is an alternate templating enginge offering a new way of creating and working with design elements. On top of that it provides a new user interface in the backend (aka the “Page Module”).

The extension “TemplaVoilà!” was developed by Kasper Skårhøj and Robert Lemke for a project in a large, french company, Dassault Systèmes. TemplaVoilà! was the result of the innovation that followed some problem solving for the project. In particular the problems that TemplaVoilà! addresses are how to create more flexible page structures than currently known in TYPO3s concept of “columns”. Further, it integrates traditional templating on the content element level but with a far more flexible point-n-click style than seen before. Finally the development of TemplaVoilà! also lead to some enhancements of the TYPO3 Core, in particular a concept called FlexForms which allows TYPO3’s backend to build hierarchical forms and store their content into XML structures.