How to edit all content on a page at once
Have you ever had the potentially tedious task of having to change or customize numerous elements in a TYPO3 system? If these elements are all assigned to a parent element (e.g., a page), you can edit them all at once.
In the list view, you can see all elements on the selected page. Whether subpages, page content, or news, for example:
If you now click on one of the table titles, only the data records of the selected table will be displayed. Then, up to TYPO3 version 10, you can scroll all the way down to select a field to be changed and/or the fields by which you want to sort, for example. Don't forget to click the “Set fields” button.
Starting with version 11, these are selected at the top and the table fields are displayed in a modal window/lightbox.
The selected table with the column of the selected field is now displayed. If you click on the field title (in the example above, this was “Description”), the records are sorted in ascending order when you click once and in descending order when you click twice. This is indicated by an upward or downward pointing arrow.
Now click on the pencil next to the field name, and you can edit and then save all the records that you could see in the list view. By default, 100 records are displayed per page.
When you have finished editing, all records are written to the database with the “Save” button.
In the list view, you will only see the records for the selected page. If this is the news page in the frontend, for example, the news articles do not necessarily have to be found on the same page. With older TYPO3 systems, it was sometimes even necessary to save the individual records in a folder instead of on the page.
The reference to the origin can also be specified differently here. In some systems, it is specified in TypoScript, while in others it is specified in the content element under “Starting point.”