Add adresses and RgGooglemap to TT News

Copyright © by Lina Wolf <2011@no spam pleaselotypo3.de>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Add adresses and RgGooglemap to TT News
  • 1.1. Read online
  • 1.2. Introduction
    • What does it do?
    • Screenshotst
  • 1.3. Read online
  • 1.4. Read online
    • References
  • 1.5. The following web pages are using the extension. If you want your web site to be listed here, send me a message.
  • 1.6. Installation
    • Without the use of rggooglemap
  • 1.7. First install tt'_news. Then just upload the extension in the extension manager and install. Include the static templates in your template.
    • With use of rggooglemap
  • 1.8. Now you have to tell the rggooglemap-Extension, that you added a new table. Go to the Extension-Manager, click on rggooglemap, then you find the configuration of the extension. There is a field "Supportet tables, be careful!", here you have to fill in the name of your table “tt_news” (comma seperated). This step is very important, otherwise theautomatic  backend-geocoding won't work.
  • 1.9. Read online
  • 1.10. Read online
  • 1.11. Import the static templates of lonewsaddress in your root-template or page-template.
  • 1.12. Done.
  • 1.13. Users manual
  • 1.14. The users just have to insert the additional adressdata with theire news.
  • 1.15. Read online
  • 1.16. If rggooglemap is not installed geocodes ca be inserted by hand in the corresponding tab, otherwise they will be genererated the first time the map is called:
  • 1.17. Read online
  • 1.18. If it is installed the coordinates will usually fill in automatically. Otherwise you can choose the position by clicking on the x beside the coordinates just as known from rggooglemap
  • 1.19. Read online
  • 1.20. Administration
    • Configuration
  • 1.21. Up to now all configuration can be done by Typoscript. Please check the existing typoscript.
  • 1.22. Read online
  • 1.23. Template Markers
  • 1.24. The template markers can be fully configured by typoscript where all tt_news fields are availible as fields. The markers can be used whereever a single news record is displayed. The following Markers are predefined:
    • Creating userdefined markers by typoscript
  • 1.25. Defining additional markers is easy. They can be defined by typoscript in plugin.tt_news.lonewsaddress.marks. All fields belonging to tt_news weather, originally or added by extensions, can be used.
  • 1.26. Example. Lets say you want a marker to display a link to the company, opening in a new window.
  • 1.27. Thereafter the marker ###FULL_LINK### can be used in the templates.
  • 1.28. Updating
  • 1.29. As from now on the plugin witch formerly created Goole Maps was removed. It was to buggy to maintain. Please use the maps provided by rggooglemap.

This document is related to version 3.1.0 of the extension lonewsaddress.