Typo3 6.2.x sys_category renderMode

Question

We are using a Typo3 6.2.9 with the tx_news extension (3.1.0) with a bunch of sys_category objects.

In FrontEnd every article has a link to its "primary" category page - which means we make a link to the category news page using newsItem.categories.0.uid in the template.

I know that sorting is supported because I manually exchanged the sorting values of two sys_category_record_mm entries of an article.

update sys_category_record_mm set sorting_foreign=<sortingvalue1> where uid_local = <sys_category_uid2> and uid_foreign = <tx_news_domain_model_news_uid>; update sys_category_record_mm set sorting_foreign=<sortingvalue2> where uid_local = <sys_category_uid1> and uid_foreign = <tx_news_domain_model_news_uid>;

I also know that the following line in the pageconfig of my root-page disables the category field:
TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news.categories.disabled = 1

Therefore I know that

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news.categories

adresses the correct field.

Now I would like to change the renderMode of the categories field for news items. The default renderMode "tree" does not support sorting of the categories. enter image description here

Thats why I'd like to change it to the one the was used in older Typo3 versions, the one that is still used with tags. enter image description here

I tried:

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news {
categories{

        select >
        group >
        check >
        group {
             size = 5
             autoSizeMax = 10 
             max_size = 10 
             show_thumbs = 0 
             maxitems = 100 
             minitems = 0 
             disable_controls = 0
        }
}

and

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news {
categories{

        config.select.renderMode = singlebox
}

and

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news {
categories{

        config.renderMode = singlebox
}

and other variations there upon.

Has anyone an idea what I am doing wrong?

Seika85 Seika85 · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-01T12:18:14

As far as I know, you cannot sort categories within the selection tree.

But you can sort them.
Just got to the page/folder where you created the categories - be sure to be on list module - and there you have the sorting buttons.

list module - data storage - see the order

category selection tree - compare with the order above

Typo3 6.2.x sys_category renderMode

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