TYPO3 TCA how to set pages max title length

Question

Our customer needs super long page titles. In the backend I found Configuration > TCA > pages > columns > title > config > max

So this would be the correct setting to increase the page title length right? But where can I add the mandatory TCA to increase the length and how would it look like?

Help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can override the TCA settings with PageTS (TCEFORM).

Documentation is here: https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-tsconfig/master/en-us/PageTsconfig/TceForm.html

Example for your issue:

TCEFORM.tt_content.header.config.max = <your value>

But be sure that the table field in the DB may be increased as well. Then you need to add an ext_tables.sql file in your sitepackage extension and add:

CREATE TABLE pages (
    title VARCHAR(<your value) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL
);