The List module contains some very powerful features for managing the database content. Let’s just think about it for a moment: All the page and page content related business went on in the Page module - it was designed for that! All template editing we did was done in the Template module - it was designed for that! But on the lower level, behind the scenes, the List module is the ultimate place to manage both pages, page content elements, template records, domain records, users and groups, guest book items and whatever elements TYPO3 is capable of managing!
You might already have used the clipboard to move a content element from one page to another. But let’s see what happens behind the scenes:
On the "This week" page we have three content elements. View the page content with the List module, enable the "Clipboard" checkbox and select "Copy" for an element. Notice how this element gets registered in the clipboard that is shown now! (You will have to refresh the List module before it's shown).
If you select another element the first one is removed. "Cutting" element is the same - it's just being registered as "Cut" instead.
If you enable "Extended view" checkbox you can see a whole panel of nifty little buttons which are all great shortcuts instead of activating the context menu all the time:
Try to play around with the buttons here!
Back to the clipboard - select one of the "numeric pads" now:
Now you can tick off the elements to select for the clipboard - thus you can have not just one but multiple elements selected at once!
Select the first two elements and press the "Transfer..." button:
The elements are now registered for "cut" on the clipboard:
Pasting them onto another page is not just a question about going to that page and click the "Paste into" icon:
After confirming the warning...
... you will see the two elements moved to the top of the page and the clipboard pane #1 emptied:
Managing files
You can do the same thing for files in the Filelist module. Just a quick view - and you can see the principles are the same:
The list module also uses the check boxes for elements for another purpose - selective multi editing. To enable this you must first of all click the title of the table in the List module (#1):
This will enable the extended mode. Here you can select additional fields from the table you want to view as well (#2). Select the "Type" field for now. This will make the "Type" field appear in addition to the "Header" field already there.
Editing all headers
Simply click the little pencil next to the "Header" label:
You will see this next:
This feature allows you to edit the same field from a large number of records in one stroke of the pen! Very comfortable!
You can do the same for both the Header and Type field at one time - just use another edit-pencil:
The result will be almost the same form - but with an additional field:
The really cool thing is if you tick off only some of the listed records:
Then you will - guessed it? - only get to edit those two!
Powerful stuff.
Now do the math yourself for the rest of the buttons! Play around with them now that you have the chance with this test website.
