Hey there,

I’m developing some extensions for our new site to get familiar with Extbase, controllers, etc.
Now I’m facing a behavior I cannot really explain and thought somebody here might know what’s up.

For context:
I’m building a backend module for job management and I tried to dynamically set meta data for the job detail pages in my controller, like so:
$tsfe = $request->getAttribute('frontend.controller');
$tsfe->page["og_title"] = "Whatever";

This works great.

But then I tried to set other page properties to render them in the frontend, which didn’t work out. I have previously added fields like hero_header to the pages table, so that I can manage the hero section of “normal pages” via the page properties in the backend. This works - I simply pass the page arguments to my hero partial:
<f:layout name="Default" />
<f:section name="Main">
<div class="app" id="app">
<f:render partial="Navigation" arguments="{_all}"/>
<main class="main-content" id="main-content">
<f:render partial="Hero" arguments="{_all}"/>
<f:cObject typoscriptObjectPath="lib.dynamicContent" data="{colPos: '0'}"/>
</main>
<f:render partial="Footer" arguments="{_all}"/>
</div>
</f:section>

And now my problem:
The issue is that the job detail pages are not “normal pages” and I cannot edit the page properties in the backend. So I tried the above method and used the frontend controller to set them:
$tsfe->page["hero_header"] = "Job title or whatever";
debug($tsfe->page); // it's there, yay!

Then I checked if the data was also present in the frontend. Nope, it’s not there. Although the meta data got applied to the view, I don’t see any of the dynamically added data in the debug output in my default template. It is there in the controller but not in the frontend.
Why is that?

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Hey there, I’m developing some extensions for our new site to get familiar with Extbase, controllers, etc. Now I’m facing a behavior I cannot really explain and thought somebody here might know what’s up.

^TYPO3