Display module system names (and maybe location) on admin modules screen

Created on 17 November 2007, over 17 years ago
Updated 23 June 2025, about 18 hours ago

Problem/Motivation

It is sometimes hard to find a module in the code base:

  • Modules may be organized in (nested) folders
  • Module machine name does not necessarily match its readable name
  • There are different places (core/modules, profiles/.../modules, modules) where Drupal is looking for modules

Proposed resolution

Display module location in expandable detailed information section, together with machine name and version

Remaining tasks

Agree if this solution should be part of core, or moved to contrib (see comments #45, #49)

User interface changes

New line in detailed module information section

API changes

No API changes

Data model changes

No data model changes

Original report by @mlncn:

Use case: You just installed contrib module img_assist, nat, or i18n and are therefor most familiar with it by the name you just saw on the file when you downloaded it (or installed it with Drush).

You go to your modules page to enable this module for the first time, and faced with the huge list of modules, you fall back on ctrl+F to search for what you were just dealing with. There's a chance you won't find it because only the human-readable name for the module can differ a bit from the file name: Image assist, Node auto title, and Internationalization in this example, but contrib can get even more cryptic.

That's the basic use case but the point is that most people who will be using the module administration page will be handling the module files themselves at some point, one way or another. We shouldn't be hiding the module's system name for the sake of a slightly simpler interface.

A good spot for the system name would be right before or above the version number.

Feature request
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

extension system

Created by

🇺🇸United States mlncn Minneapolis, MN, USA

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