Posibillity to override Widget Templates with own templates

[ludwigmair]

Hi,
i receantly tryed to override Widget Templates with my own from a other extension.
therefor i discovered that the call for a template is sort of set in stone.

"setTemplate('Widget/"
and "fillDefaultsByPackageName('dashboard')"

protected function initializeView(): void
    {
        $this->view = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(StandaloneView::class);
        $this->view->setTemplate('Widget/' . $this->templateName);

        $dateFormat = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['USdateFormat'] ? '%m-%d-%Y' : '%d-%m-%Y';
        $this->view->assign('dateFormat', $dateFormat);

        $this->view->getRenderingContext()->getTemplatePaths()->fillDefaultsByPackageName('dashboard');

        $this->view->assign('title', $this->getTitle());
    }

please provide a solution how to make it possible to override a given template with a custom template.

thanks

best regards Ludwig

[kaystrobach]

Please provide a use case for this.

[DanielSiepmann]

It is possible, you can configure like any other module or plugin:

module.tx_dashboard {
    view {
        templateRootPaths {
            100 = EXT:own_extension/Resources/Private/Templates/Dashboard/
        }
    }
}

A use case might be to implement custom Widgets with their own Template.
A Documentation is in the making which will also contain this information.

Please note that 0 - 100 are used for TYPO3 system extensions. So please use a higher value.

[NamelessCoder]

As @DanielSiepmann already mentioned: you can add paths to the EXT:dashboard set of paths, then they will be read by fillDefaultsFromPackageName. Which means you can both override existing templates and add new ones.

[ludwigmair]

Hi,

thanks for all the responses, i really appreciate it.
i definately will try all your recommendations to figure out what works best for me

cheers Ludwig

[ludwigmair]

Hi,
many thanks for all your help. It works. Fantastic

cheers Ludwig