4 + 5: TYPO3 Handling & Backend Administration (Part 1)

The TYPO3 frontend is always enabled and always shows a HTML-based website

If frontend users are enabled, these user accounts are the same accounts as for the backend users

Content creators (e.g. editors) typically use the backend to edit texts and images

By default, users can access the TYPO3 backend by appending /admin/ to the site’s root URL

TYPO3 instances can be “headless” which means that no web-facing user interface (frontend) exists

The Admin Panel is the administrator’s control center for user settings

The Admin Panel can be used to analyze the frontend output

The Admin Panel can be used to configure TYPO3 in the backend

The Admin Panel can be used to simulate a website access by a specific frontend user group

The Admin Panel monitors data entries and can notify administrators about changes

By entering config.admPanel = 1 in the TypoScript setup of the root template

By entering config.admPanel = 1 in the User TSconfig

By entering admPanel.enable.all = 1 in the TypoScript setup of the root template

By entering admPanel.enable.all = 1 in the User TSconfig

By enabling the function in the user’s user settings

You change the time on your desktop computer

You change the time on the server

You wait until 8:00 the next day

You simulate the correct time in the Admin Panel

The TYPO3 Console typically requires console access (command line interface)

The TYPO3 Console must first be enabled in the Install Tool

The TYPO3 Console is only available on Linux servers

The TYPO3 Console can be used to execute certain administrative actions

Custom commands can be added by TYPO3 developers as required

The TYPO3 Console is only available on TYPO3 instances in Composer mode

Backend layouts let you adjust the visual appearance of the page tree

Backend layouts let you change the order of backend modules in the menu on the left-hand side in the TYPO3 backend

Backend layouts let you define a combination of rows and columns in the backend and are typically used to visualize the appearance of the frontend

As backend layouts are always global, you can’t apply different layouts on different pages within the same TYPO3 installation

Backend layouts can be configured in “Admin Tools → Settings → Layouts”

Backend layouts can be used to map page layouts in the backend

The extension “Grid Elements” must be installed to map page layouts in the backend

The TYPO3 backend features a four-columns backend layout by default

TYPO3 supports up to four different backend layouts

By bookmarking the deep links of the pages in your browser

By installing the third-party extension “Shortcuts”

By using the “Bookmarks” function in TYPO3

By Using the “Web → Functions → Bookmarks” backend module

By using the following option:
config.shortcuts = id1,id2,id3,...

This cannot be tested as TYPO3 does not support responsive web design (RWD)

Open the page in the frontend and append the argument width=320 to the URL

Open “Web → Template” and select “Page Preview (mobile)” from the dropdown box at the top

Preview the page under “Web → View” and select the preferred screen resolution

By selecting the page in the “Web → List” backend module

By selecting the page in the “Web → Page” backend module

By opening the “Web → View” backend module and selecting the page from the dropdown box at the top

By opening the “Web → Info” backend module and selecting the “Pagetree Overview” function

By selecting the context menu of the page in the page tree and selecting “More options>List module”

TYPO3 features a tab “Notes” in the page properties for this use case

The system extension “Page Notes” provides the function to add notes to pages

The function “Page Notes” of the Admin Panel lets backend users add notes to pages

The function “Web → View → Notes” lets backend users add notes to pages

TYPO3 does not have an undo function by default, but it can be added through third-party extensions

Yes, TYPO3 has an undo function in the “List” module by default

Yes, TYPO3 has an undo function in the “Page” module by default

Yes, TYPO3 has an undo function in the “Info” module by default

Yes, TYPO3 has an undo function in the “Versioning” module by default

Write an email to all backend users and ask them not to log-in

Change the passwords of all backend users and don’t reveal the new passwords for the time being

Rename the typo3/ directory, don’t reveal the new URL, and change it back once you’re done

Enable the “admin-only” mode in the global system configuration

Lock the backend by accessing the system with the &adminOnly=1 parameter in the URL

In the “Web → Page” module

In the “Web → Template” module

In the “Web → List” module

In the “System → Install Tool → Templates” module

In the “Web → TypoScript” module

The dashboard is only available for administrator and system maintainer users

Backend users can have multiple dashboards

Only backend users with administrator privileges can rename the default dashboard “My Dashboard”

The TYPO3 backend module “Dashboard” is part of the TYPO3 Core and cannot be disabled/removed

TYPO3 extensions can provide pre-configured dashboards (“presets”)

Backend users can add widgets to their dashboards

Each dashboard widget can only be used by one backend user

TYPO3 developers can build custom dashboard widgets as extensions

Dashboard widgets enable non-admin users to install system updates

Dashboard widgets output system information in the frontend of a website

Backend users can reposition widgets in their dashboards

The user or user group does not have the required permissions

Widgets possibly reveal sensitive information and must be explicitly enabled by the following Page TSconfig:
mod.dashboard.widget.<id>.enable = 1

Reinstall the “dashboard” extension or flush all caches to register all widgets

Backend users without administrator privileges only have access to widgets provided by the TYPO3 Core

This is not possible; you have to delete the page and then create it in a different place

By using drag and drop in the page tree

By right-clicking on a page in the page tree and then selecting “Cut” and “Paste after” or “Paste into”

By right-clicking on a page in the page tree and then selecting “Page actions → Cut” and “Page actions → Paste…”

By using the “Move up” and “Move down” in list buttons in the List module

By using the clipboard

By updating the site name in the “Installation-Wide Options” (Admin Tools)

By double-clicking on the page name in the page tree

By setting the environment variable TYPO3_SITENAME

By accessing the page properties and updating the page title in tab “General”

By setting the following variable in the file typo3conf/AdditionalConfiguration.php:
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['sitename']

This is not possible as TYPO3 always shows the full page tree with all pages in the system

By selecting the “Mount as tree root” option in the page properties of the page

By selecting “More options → Mount as treeroot” from the context menu of the page

By using the following Page TSconfig setting:
options.mountAsTreeRoot = 1