Backend Administration (Part 4)

By logging-in using the user’s credentials

By using the “Switch to user” function in the “Backend Users” module

By installing the third-party extension “Simulate user” (EXT:simulate_user)

By adding the user ID to the following global configuration: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['simulateBackendUser']

By configuring the ID of the user you want to simulate in the Admin Panel

By selecting the user in the “User Settings → Simulate backend user” module

Open the “System → Backend Users” module to list all backend users

Activate the checkbox “Extended view”

Go to the “Web → List” module and choose the root page (page ID: 0)

Select “Full search” from the dropdown box

Go to “System → Reports” and select “Backend users” from the dropdown box at the top

Select the appropriate columns in the table “Backend users” and click “Update”

Open the “Single Table View” of the table “Backend users”

A DB Mount allows TYPO3 to connect to external databases (to “mount” them)

A DB Mount connects the database used by TYPO3 with the core system

You can use a DB Mount to restrict database access for users and groups

You can use a DB Mount to restrict page tree access for users

You can set up a DB Mount in the backend group configuration

You can set up a DB Mount in the backend user configuration

You can set up a DB Mount under “Admin Tools → Maintenance → Analyze Database Structure”

You can set up a DB Mount under “System → DB Check”

A TYPO3 Core function that validates the syntax of links while backend users enter them in the RTE

A third-party extension that obfuscates email addresses in mailto:-links to prevent spam

A system extension that checks your TYPO3 website for broken links

A Scheduler task that automatically removes redirects if the destination URL becomes invalid

Email addresses in mailto:-links

External links

Internal links

Targets entered in “Site Management → Redirects”

File links

Manually from the dropdown menu item “Linkvalidator” under “Web → Info”

Manually from the context menu of a page in the page tree under “More options… → Validate links”

Manually from the “Admin Tools → Maintenance → Link Validator” function

Automatically as a Scheduler task, class “Linkvalidator"

Automatically by the following CLI command in a Composer-based installation: typo3 linkvalidator:checkauto

By configuring a comma-separated list of table/fields in the following Page TSconfig: mod.linkvalidator.searchFields

By adding the fields to the text area “Searchfields” under “System → Configuration → Link Validator”

By adding the fields to the YAML file typo3conf/ext/linkvalidator/fields.yaml

Engage a TYPO3 developer as this requires a TYPO3 extension and PHP programming

The backend module “Web → List”

The backend module “Web → Recycler"

The backend module “File → Filelist”

The backend module “System → Log”

Open the backend module “Web → Recycler” and select the target page from the page tree

Switch to clipboard #2 (multi-selection mode) and click the button “Transfer to clipboard”

Open the target page in the list view and click button “Paste in clipboard content” at the top

Go to the backend module “Web → List” and select the page that contains the records from the page tree

Switch to the “normal” clipboard (single record mode) and click the button “Transfer to clipboard”

Click the button “Edit”

Select the relevant records by ticking the checkboxes at the left

Transfer the records from the clipboard to the target page by clicking the button “Remove all”

Repeat the process for every single data record

Open the context menu of the parent page in the page tree and choose “More options > Export”

Open the parent page under “Web → Page” and select the “Export” functionality from the “Share” actions

Open the parent page under “Web → List” and click the “Download” button of the table “Page”

Open the parent page under “Web → List”, transfer all pages to the clipboard, and click the “Export elements” button in the clipboard

Install the “Import/Export” system extension and use the function under Admin Tools → Import/Export

This is not possible in TYPO3; you have to edit each page individually

You can use TypoScript to create a script that performs the change at once

You can open the context menu in the page tree and select the “mass update” function

You can use the Single Table View to change page titles of multiple pages

The display of a table in the “phpMyAdmin” extension

The table output of a frontend plugin

A page preview under “Web → View” with a specific width and height

The display of a single table in the “Web → List” module

The display of the content element “Tables” in the “Web → Page” module