Deprecated input components

With FirstSpirit Version 4.2 a fundamental revision and consolidation of FirstSpirit's model of input components has begun. This has been finished in Version 5.0. The input components with the prefix “FS_” which have been introduced newly in this context have resumed functions of already existing input components. Advantages of these new input components are that often only one input component can be used for diverse use cases. Thus, the number of different page and section templates in one project can be reduced. For example, if the editor should be enabled to select pictures and PDF files, only FS_REFERENCE is now required instead of two input components CMS_INPUT_PICTURE and CMS_INPUT_FILE.

The input component types replaced by the new "FS_" input components are deprecated with Version 5.0. This means that these "old" input components can still continue to be used, but they will no longer be further developed and maintained and will be removed completely in a later version. In the WebClient, these input components are already no longer supported in Version 5.0.

For easier finding out still existing usages of the old input components, from FirstSpirit Version 5.0R4 on “WARN” messages will be recorded in the log file while generating the project or parts of the project containing the identifier of the respective input component (in the example pt_file), for example:

WARN  03.09.2013 10:48:03.970{g-node=145474} (de.espirit.firstspirit.generate.AbstractGenerationContext): usage of deprecated form element CMS_INPUT_FILE for variable 'pt_file'

This concerns the following input components:

You can find notes about how to migrate from the “old” to the “new” input components and examples on the pages of the replacing input components with the prefix “FS_”.