BUG: Render issue with <flux:content.render area="foo" /> in Workspace previews.

[simonmayr]

I am using Flux Grid to render a Header on my Website. I have a Flux Configuration that looks like this:

<flux:grid>
    <flux:grid.row>
        <flux:grid.column name="headerItems" label="Header" colPos="1">
            <flux:form.variable name="allowedContentTypes" value="hwprovider_headeritem" />
        </flux:grid.column>
    </flux:grid.row>
</flux:grid>

and rendering it like this:

<flux:content.render area="headerItems" />

I am also using the Typo3 Workspace Module.

The issue i am facing is that if i move or edit the Header in a workspace, the Header-Items are missing in the Preview.
Specifically <flux:content.render area="headerItems" /> is not returning anything in the preview even tho there should be Header-Items.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Switch to a Workspace other than the Live-Workspace.
2. Edit or move a Content Element that has some "Child-Elements".
3. Generate a preview link and visit the preview site.
4. The "Child-Elements" are now missing in the preview.

I tested this in Typo3 v11 and v12 and with every version of this extension, and all versions had this issue.

If more information is needed, i can also provide some screenshots or try to explain the problem further.

Thanks for the time you guys put into this project.

Simon

[JanStorm]

I have encountered the same problem.
The Problem is that when rendering the content records of a workspace element, that they are identified by their colPos, which are based on the uid of the LIVE-element.

As example, we have these Elements:

• a LIVE-version of a content element with the uid 42
• a PREVIEW-Version of the same content element with the uid 43
• The Live-Version contains 2 child column elements assigned with colPos 4201 and 4202 by the ColumnNumberUtility::calculateColumnNumberForParentAndColumn function.
• A Element in Preview Workspace that results in a third column child with colPos 4203.

With this set, we render the preview element:
We see that the "placeholder" (the preview element) is used instead the original:

// Classes/ViewHelpers/Content/GetViewHelper.php
if ($workspaceId) {
    $placeholder = BackendUtility::getWorkspaceVersionOfRecord($workspaceId, 'tt_content', $record['uid'] ?? 0);
    if ($placeholder) {
        // Use the move placeholder if one exists, ensuring that "pid" and "tx_flux_parent" values are taken
        // from the workspace-only placeholder.
        /** @var array $record */
        $record = $placeholder;
    }
}

Rendering the preview results in the child elements being searched by colPos 4301, 4302, 4303, ... (Again, because of ColumnNumberUtility::calculateColumnNumberForParentAndColumn).
The Problem here is that we want to render also the live elements, which have the colPos 4201, 4201, ...

So as a solution, i kept that information about the original record and used it then to also check for rows in this live record:

diff --git a/Classes/ViewHelpers/Content/GetViewHelper.php b/Classes/ViewHelpers/Content/GetViewHelper.php
if ($workspaceId) {
    $placeholder = BackendUtility::getWorkspaceVersionOfRecord($workspaceId, 'tt_content', $record['uid'] ?? 0);
    if ($placeholder) {
        // Use the move placeholder if one exists, ensuring that "pid" and "tx_flux_parent" values are taken
        // from the workspace-only placeholder.
+       $liveRecord = $record;
        /** @var array $record */
        $record = $placeholder;
    }
}

/** @var AbstractProvider $provider */
$provider = $renderingContext->getViewHelperVariableContainer()->get(FormViewHelper::class, 'provider');
$grid = $provider->getGrid($record);
$rows = static::getContentRecords($arguments, $record, $grid);
+if (isset($liveRecord) && $liveRecord['uid'] !== $record['uid']) {
+  array_push($rows, ...static::getContentRecords($arguments, $liveRecord, $grid));
+}

This solves the issues, but im not sure whether thats the correct location to fix this. Maybe this can also be solved when saving the element.