TYPO3 en LionsBase¶
LionsBase started as a standalone web application. Over the years, the need for custom content, list of documents to download, galleries of pictures grew and we decided to use the CMS TYPO3 to let each and every LionsBase webmaster manage their club presence on internet.
The few next sections should help you grasp some basic concepts of TYPO3. Further documentation is available on the TYPO3 official website.
Understanding the TYPO3 Backend Screen¶
When you first log in, the default screen is divided into two sections. On the left we have the TYPO3 menu and on the right description of the menu items. These menu items are sometimes referred to as “Backend modules” or “modules”.
The page tree is located toward the middle of the screen when the currently selected menu item (module) needs access to pages, that is typically the case when using modules “Page” or “List”, both under the title “Web”. In this documentation we referred to modules as a fully qualified name such as “Web > Page” or “Web > List”. The page tree shows a hierarchical view of the pages and folders in your website.
In the page tree, click on the title of a page. The wide section on the right shows the content area. It lists the content elements on the corresponding page. It will show different types of information base on the menu item selected at the left.
The list view (Web > List) shows a list of the database records associated with a page or a folder (in fact, folders are normal TYPO3 pages with type “folder”). Page view and list view are used frequently in the TYPO3 Backend. As rule of thumb, you will have to switch to Web > List whenever we want to manage news items or LionsBase information (member data, social activities, events, …).