tt_news
1.2.
1.3. Users manual
1.3.1. Installation
WARNING !! Do not install this tt_news version on TYPO3 prior to version 3.8.0 because it requires features that are not present in older TYPO3 versions. Don't even try it, because it might break your TYPO3 installation!
Install the extension with the extension manager. If you already use an older version of tt_news that's installed in the "global" location (typo3/ext/), it's recommended to install the new extension in the "local" folder (typo3conf/ext/) without overwriting the old one. In case something fails you'll have thereby a possibility to re-establish the original installation state from where you started the update.
For further information about upgrading an existing tt_news installation to a newer one, see section "How to update".
Important: Deactivate all extensions that depend on a prior version of tt_news (<1.4.0)
After the extension manager created the new database tables and fields for tt_news you should see a page with the main configuration options. Here you can configure some basic options (mostly BackEnd related).
Handling of Categories
You can configure the handling of news-categories with a checkbox in the extension manager:
The default is, to display categories only from the "General record storage page". For more Information about categories and the "General record storage page" have a look at the "FAQ" in section "Quickstart".
Tab-Dividers
"Dividers to Tabs" is a feature introduced with TYPO3 3.7.0 which divides the BE form of a news record to smaller parts ("Tabs") see screenshot in the section "Screenshots". Here you can disable this if you don't want to use it.
Labels in List Module
You can configure which field is taken as label in the web/list module. Default is to display the title as label but you can change it f.e. to the date field (datetime) if you want to see the datetime as title.
The other options configure the alternative labels which will be shown if the title is empty. If the first alternative label is also empty, "Alternative label 2" will be displayed instead. If "Force alternative label" is activated the alternative labels will be shown always, even if the label field is not empty.
Example:
The author field is configured as "News label", the title field is the "Alternative Label" and the datetime field is "Alternative Label 2". Now the titles in lists will look like this:
Localization settings
Localization mode for text fields
By default, all text fields (text, subheader, imagecaption ...) from a new localized news article will be prepended with "[translate to ...]". If this is not wanted you can disable it here.
Localization mode for images
The image field of a localized news article is excluded by default (images are alwas taken from the record in the default language). If you need localized images (f.e. if the images show texts) you can enable the "image" field in translated news by setting "l10n_mode_imageExclude" to 0.
Hide new localizations
By default, all text fields (text, subheader, imagecaption ...) from a new localized news article will be prepended with "[translate to ...]". If this is not wanted you can disable it here. If "l10n_mode_prefixLangTitle" is disabled the text "(copy [#])" will be added to the titles of this records unless "prependAtCopy" is disabled (see "prependAtCopy").
Prepend at copy
Here you can disable adding of the text "(copy [#])" to titles of copied records.
Category form fields
Category ordering in BackEnd trees
Here you can configure the the ordering of categories in the category tree in BackEnd forms.
Width of the left category field
This field shows the selected categories in the tt_news db-record (or parent categories in the category db-record). If "categorySelectedWidth" is set to 0 (zero) the default width (=180px) will be taken.
Width of the right category field
This field shows the category tree in the tt_news db-record (or in the category db-record). If "categoryTreeWidth" is set to 0 (zero) the default width will depend on the browser which displays the TYPO3 BackEnd. The default width for all browsers except IE is 280px, for IE the default width is 320px to suppress the unneeded horizontal scrollbar below the category tree.
Max height for category trees
Here you can configure the maximum height of category trees in BackEnd forms. If you have xajax enabled for the expandable category tree, set this value to 30 because the height of the tree field will then be adapted to the tree height automatically.