BZD Staff Directory Extension for TYPO3
Out of the Extension Manual:
This extension produces “Person Lists” to show on your website. These can be your company staff, friends, club-members or which persons you need.
You might think, this could be solved by using the TYPO3 (FE/BE) User-Objects. That's right for some situations. But it wasn't for my situation. Our company wanted to show something around 130 persons, organized in many groups and sub-groups. The main problem was: These persons were no TYPO3 users.
There were some other extensions that do this job also. But they lacked some functionality we wanted to have. As an example: One extension could only show all records from a given starting point. No filtering or selection was possible. This works for some situations, when every person belong to exactly ONE organizational unit. But where I work, there are persons that belong to one, two and some important persons belong to five or six groups. How to select that? It's not possible (OK, there's one way: create multiple records of the same persons - so that's no way).
That's why I decided to try to develop this extension. I'm no programmer in my daily business. If you find an error in this extension, I would be happy to hear from you, so that I can try to repair/correct this extension.
And now: Happy working with my first extension ever! Have fun!
- mario
