Does it still make sense to have views settings pages under the structure menu when no other settings pages are under structure

Created on 13 June 2015, almost 10 years ago
Updated 16 May 2025, 21 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Views is now in core, it is confusing for views settings to be under structure/views/settings. A user with no prior views experience should expect views settings to be located in configuration.

Proposed resolution

Re-evaluate the views settings pages and put the settings into the core settings/configuration pages as they should be now that view is in core.

Remaining tasks

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User interface changes

This will remove the settings page from the familiar structure/views/settings route and place the settings in line with the rest of drupal core.

API changes

none.

πŸ“Œ Task
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 πŸ”₯

Component

views_ui.module

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States frob US

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  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

    Thanks!

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States frob US

    Yes, 10 years later, the views settings are still under /admin/structure/views/settings and they should still be changed to be under /admin/config/development/views

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    Just dropping my 2 cents but agree with #2 that it may be odd to break out, but will leave as is. Will ultimately need UX review probably.

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States frob US

    I don't understand what is odd about configuration going under configuration. We have lots of old contrib modules that have put their configuration under their module's structure menu, seemingly, because that is just how they have always done it. Views is in core and has been for a long time. It's been around for a long time and so for many of us old timers we expect it to be under but if we really think about it then it doesn't make much sense for views to be under structure --it's just there because it pre-dates "Structure"

    All this made more sense when it was "Site building" and "Site Configuration" but that isn't what it is anymore. Drupal's UI is confusing as hell. We need to move all our configuration into the configuration menu. This should happen for contrib too --looking at you webform.

    I am removing the stale issue tag. This issue isn't stale it's just ignored.

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    Putting back for stats purposes

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