I'm new to the fedext-universe. By now, I've created a set of content elements, and they work fine.
There is one drawback though: One set of content elements has some fields in common, and these fields are rather complicated. Usually, I'd move their definition to a partial, but that isn't possible in flux forms. The beginners guide states
Flux templates can use Layouts and
Partials - but a Flux form cannot
be split into Partial templates.
Is there any way to avoid redefining these fields over and over again? Among other things, I've tried to use the <vhs:render.inline> viewhelper along with a custom viewhelper, returning the fluid-definition of the fields, but I can't get that to work.
Flux 7.0 will bring the option to place fields and sheets into Partial templates - if you are currently in a development project, I recommend trying it out from the development branches on Github:
https://github.com/FluidTYPO3/flux/tree/development
Flux 7.0 also will bring the option to create PHP classes which for example create ready-made sheets with a bunch of fields - such a class would be ideal to reuse, simply requiring one PHP class and one Fluid ViewHelper. Such an approach would be more efficient when your forms are rendered, but of course is much more technically demanding than a Partial template.
EDIT: though not yet documented, creating custom sheets involves two simple steps: 1) create a subclass of FluidTYPO3\Flux\Form\Container\Sheet and a subclass of FluidTYPO3\Flux\ViewHelpers\Form\SheetViewHelper - then include your namespace in the template, use your own ViewHelper instead of a flux:form.sheet (and add additional fields if you need them) and then inside the Sheet object, use the $this->createField() method from within object initialization, to automatically add any number of fields with predefined names, labels etc.