New property TCEFORM.<table>.<field>.keepItems keeps declared items in the select box, while removing everything else. It should be used in PageTS. For example: TCEFORM.pages.doktype { keepItems = 1,2,255 } More info: RFC: Feature Request #5610: Extend TCEFORM_confObj on Page TSconfig by property keepItems http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=5610