Question

Our client would like to have certain pages styled differently in a menu, depending on FE group access.

The idea is to give certain menu items, that are only visible to moderators, a little icon to make it clear to moderators that this page is only available to them.

I’m sure I could come up with a solution by implementing the logic in PHP, but I would prefer to solve this in pure TypoScript to make maintenance easier for future maintainers of the site.

I like the idea of applying a style through CSS based on the UID, but that seems like a maintenance hell in the long run.

Answer 1

You can use the USR state to apply a different wrap

10 = HMENU
10.1 = TMENU
10.1.wrap = <ul>|</ul>
10.NO = 1
10.NO.wrapItemAndSub = <li>|</li>
10.ACT < .NO
10.ACT.wrapItemAndSub = <li class="menu-active">|</li>
10.USR < .NO
10.USR.wrapItemAndSub = <li class="menu-user">|</li>

There is not combination for user and active, thus I recommend another approch.

Modify the link depending on some page properties of the processed page:

10.NO.wrapItemAndSub.override = <li class="menu-user">|</li>
10.NO.wrapItemAndSub.override {
  # the list of matching fe groups
  if.value = 1,3
  if.isInList.field = fe_group
}

Also have a look at the power of TypoScript conditions. http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tsref/4.7.0/view/1/5/#id553579