TYPO3 Extension live_search_extended

This extension improves the output of TYPO3's backend search of the top right corner which is called Live Search by:

• Appending the UID of the record to the title
• Provide more information about the record in the result
• Search for EXT:form records

Supported TYPO3 versions:

• 12.4 LTS

Installation

composer require studiomitte/live-search-extended

Usage

Check out the examples in Configuration/TCA/Overrides/examples.php which are enabled by default but can be disabled in the Extension settings.

There are 2 ways to configure the extension. Every configuration must be placed in Configuration/TCA/Overrides/<some_file_name.php.

API driven

$configuration = new \StudioMitte\LiveSearchExtended\Configuration\Table('tx_news_domain_model_news');
$configuration
    // Provide the field name and an icon identifier
    ->addField(
        (new \StudioMitte\LiveSearchExtended\Configuration\Field('datetime', 'actions-clock'))
            ->setSkipIfEmpty(true)
            ->setPrefixLabel(false)
    )
    ->addField(
        (new \StudioMitte\LiveSearchExtended\Configuration\Field('teaser', 'actions-document'))
            ->setSkipIfEmpty(true)
            ->setPrefixLabel(false)
    )
    ->persist();

Directly in TCA

$GLOBALS['TCA']['sys_category']['ctrl']['live_search_extended'] = [
    'fields' => [
        'parent' => [
            'icon' => 'mimetypes-x-sys_category',
        ],
    ],
];

Extending

You can provide computed fields in the result row by using the event \StudioMitte\LiveSearchExtended\Event\ModifyRowEvent. One example is in \StudioMitte\LiveSearchExtended\EventListener\RowModification\SysTemplateRowModificationEventListener which provides the line count of TypoScript to the result row which is then later used in the configuration

$GLOBALS['TCA']['sys_template']['ctrl']['live_search_extended'] = [
    'fields' => [
        // _count_constants is a computed field
        '_count_constants' => [
            'icon' => 'form-number',
            // As the label can't be taken from TCA as the field is not there provided, a custom label can be set
            'label' => 'Count Constants',
            'skipIfEmpty' => false,
        ],
    ],
];

Credits

This extension was created by Studio Mitte with ♥.

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