Sunday, 8 September 2013

In TYPO3 6.x, how to disable entire tabs of content items

In TYPO3 6.x, how to disable entire tabs of content items

As configuring excludefields in that tiny box is painful and incomplete, I
use TCEFORM to simplify the TYPO3 backend for editors. I thought in TYPO3
6.x, this would be maybe a bit cleaner, but it's not. Everything's still
there, and with FAL, even more potentially user-confusing fields have been
introduced.
That's how I do it (in user group TSConfig):
page.TCEFORM.tt_content.longdescURL.disabled = 1
The syntax corresponds to table and column name, AFAIK.
I'll include my current setup (beware, Legacy from 4.5, there are probably
black holes in there) in an answer, as it's quite long.
If you disable all fields in a tab, the tab itself will disappear.
The question is:
Is there an easier way? Like, disabling an entire tab at once? Or
disabling everything and only including desired fields from the ground up?

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