Linking text in the TYPO3 RTE to other pages, specific content on a page, external sites or email addresses is fairly straightforward: select a tab, select location in page tree, click on the target. However, until recently, linking to dynamic content like calendar or news entries is manually intensive.
By installing and configuring the AOE Link handler TYPO3 extension, you can easily do point and click link building of content records. This link building uses the current TYPO3 RTE point-and-click link browser process as a basis.
Get Started with linkhandler
- Import and install
linkhandlervia the extension manager - Include
linkhandler'sown TypoScript template in a root TYPO3 template record - Configure the TYPO3 template settings as below
- Clear your TYPO3 configuration caches
TYPO3 Template Settings
Constants
Put the following into your TYPO3 template for TypoScript Constants. Be sure to set the single news landing PID for your installation.
linkhandler.newsSinglePid = 85
Backend Editor Configuration
Put the following into your TYPO3 template for Backend Editor Configuration.
Notice that you can set the link browser tab label and limit where to grab record selections from via onlyPids.
RTE.default.tx_linkhandler {
tt_news {
label = News
listTables = tt_news
onlyPids =
}
}
mod.tx_linkhandler {
tt_news {
label = News
listTables = tt_news
onlyPids =
}
}
Instead of putting the above code into a TYPO3 template Backend Editor Configuration, you could add to the Page TSConfig block. This way, you could affect that some pages can only grab from certain folders.
Additionally, the principal of using TYPO3 template Backend Editor Configuration would hold true for Backend Usergroup role handling to limit record source access.
Reference
- Linkhandler extension
- Linkhandler manual
Thank you AOE Media for this excellent TYPO3 extension
Be sure to read the manual for guidance on how to add code for linking to calendar entries and other TYPO3 content records.
- Extension Manager - Import linkhandler
- Extension Link handler - Backend Editor Configuration
- Extension Link handler - Constants
- RTE Editor
- RTE Editor - News Link Browser
- Link handler - link result
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Jonsi,
You’re right about the multiple landing pages for topically segmented news sites being a bit of a problem.
The most correct answer would be to modify the linkhandler extension code to look up the news item’s first category relation and it’s associated single display page PID and use that if it exists.
Another option without custom coding is to just have a generic landing page and just let the topical segmentation be.
Would you be interested in sponsoring the first options changes?
Michael
Hi,
I have just installed the extension linkhandler. At the linkwizard, the tab ‘News’ is there and tt_news articles are displayed at the specified folders. But the link generated is just like this: . Definitely, this creates a wrong link.
Is there would be any problem with what I have done?
Kindly help me?
the link created is just like this: ~~~~/typo3/record:tt_news:156
Did you remember to include the TypoScript template in your TYPO3 template?
It was included. I can send you the screenshot. Is there any issue with the version of the RTE htmlarea ?
Did you put the code for the Backend Editor Configuration into your backend usergroup TSConfig configuration section?
If still having troubles, I think on Monday, email me via the contact form with access details to take a deeper look.