TYPO3 Form Framework e-mail-finisher with staticText - typo3

Question

I made a form with the TYPO3-FormFramework (Version 10.4.12). The form contains a lot of staticText-Elements, which don't show up at the summary-page and in the emails. The Template-part looks like this
<formvh:renderAllFormValues renderable="{form.formDefinition}" as="formValue">
...
{formvh:translateElementProperty(element:formValue.element, property: 'label')}
...
<f:if condition="{formValue.value}">
<f:then>
<f:if condition="{formValue.isMultiValue}">
<f:then>
...
<f:for each="{formValue.processedValue}" as="value">
<tr>
<td>{value}</td>
</tr>
</f:for>
</table>
</f:then>
<f:else>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<f:format.nl2br>formValue.processedValue}</f:format.nl2br>
...
</formvh:renderAllFormValues>
(identical with the original-Template.)
The Formdefinition in the yaml-File containts standard definitions like
renderables:
-
properties:
text: 'Antrag auf Mitgliedschaft'
elementClassAttribute: h3
type: StaticText
identifier: statictext-10
label: ''
-
Does anyone know how to output the staticTexts (and/or contentElements used in forms)?
Thanks a lot

Answer 1

In Configuration/Yaml/FormElements/StaticText.yaml, the YAML configuration of the StaticText field includes a Form variant:
variants:
-
identifier: hide-1
renderingOptions:
enabled: false
condition: 'stepType == "SummaryPage" || finisherIdentifier in ["EmailToSender", "EmailToReceiver"]'
This variant will disable the rendering of the field if the condition is met, in this case:
on a summary page
in the two email finishers
You can learn more about Form variants in the official documentation.
Possible solution
First of all, we need to alter the variant of the field type StaticText in your custom Form configuration:
TYPO3:
CMS:
Form:
prototypes:
standard:
formElementsDefinition:
StaticText:
variants:
-
identifier: hide-1
renderingOptions:
enabled: true
This change already allows to render the StaticText's Header (label) in summary pages and emails. But the text value is still missing, as only processed values (means: user input) are rendered there.
To also render the value stored in the Text field, we need to extend the Fluid templates. The following partial will work in SummaryPage.html, as well as in the email finisher templates:
<f:if condition="{formValue.value}">
<f:then>
[default processing here]
</f:then>
<f:else>
<f:if condition="{0: formValue.element.type} == {0: 'StaticText'}">
<f:then>
{formValue.element.properties.text}
</f:then>
<f:else>
-
</f:else>
</f:if>
</f:else>
</f:if>
As you can see, we add another condition which checks if the current form element in the f:for loop is of type StaticText. If this is the case, we render the text property. For all other field types with an empty value, we still render the hyphen.