in2code/in2help

Provides a help module, to display a page in the backend. This can be used for editors documentation

13.0.0 2025-08-08 13:59 UTC

Requires

• typo3/cms-core: ^13.4

Requires (Dev)

• typo3/cms-backend: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-extbase: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-extensionmanager: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-filelist: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-fluid: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-frontend: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-install: ^13.4
• typo3/minimal: ^13

Replaces

• typo3-ter/in2help: 13.0.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Marcus Schwemer

• iframe
• onlinehelp
• helpmodule

README

What does it do?

The extension adds a module to the help section in the backend of your installation. You can define a page ID, which is loaded into this module. The idea is, that you can provide your editors an entry point, into the editors documentation.

Basically you write the documentation about content elements and functions in the backend and use the frontend rendering to display it.

Screenshots

Configuration

The extension configuration can be set up in the extension configuration.

Options:

• PID of help page: basic.helpPid (int+) -> the PID of the page which contains the documentation.

Tips

Adjust page rendering

In order to provide the best experience for your editors, you should try to keep the header of your layout small. You could hide elements, which are just ornaments.

Provide user / page TS to set this module as starting point

You can set up PageTS or UserTS to force users, to get this module as start module.

setup.override.startModule = web_in2help

Contribution with ddev

This repository provides a DDEV-backed development environment. If DDEV is installed, simply run the following commands to quickly set up a local environment with example usages:

• ddev start
• ddev initialize

Requirements

1. Install ddev, see: https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#installation
2. Install git-lfs, see: https://git-lfs.github.com/

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Run ddev start
3. Run ddev initialize to setup configurations and test database

Branchinfo

• master Branch - Next Major Version

Early Access Programm for TYPO3 14 support

ℹ️ TYPO3 14 compatibility

See EAP page (DE) or EAP page (EN) for more information how to get access to a TYPO3 14 version

Changelog

Version	Date	State	Description
13.0.0	2025-08-08	Task	Release for TYPO3 v13
7.0.1	2024-10-02	Bugfix	Make module accessible for normal editors
7.0.0	2023-02-27	Task	Release for TYPO3 v12
6.0.1	2022-06-23	Bugfix	Remove vendor name from registerModule
6.0.0 !!!	2022-06-23	Task	Support for TYPO3 11 and 10 (9 is dropped now)
5.0.1	2021-05-19	Task	Add github workflow; add extensionkey to composer.json
5.0.0	2020-04-24	Task	Release for TYPO3 10.4
4.0.0	2019-04-08	Task	Release for TYPO3 9.5

Breaking changes

Updating fom earlier versions to 6

We just changed the configuration key in LocalConfiguration.php from designPatternPid to helpPid because this extension is used to show documentations while it was once created to show a designPattern.