List key|label entry field is textarea, which doesn't give guidance towards the expected input

Created on 2 July 2015, over 9 years ago
Updated 10 April 2024, 8 months ago

Problem/Motivation

During the usability sessions, some participants struggled to figure out how to add multiple key|label values. Some didn't understand the relationship between the key and the label.

In good form design, we use the correct input types to provide guidance towards the expected input, a large freetext area is not intuitive and requires a lot of help text to understand.

Proposed resolution

Replace the text area with multiple inputs, automatically creating the value based on the machine name UI component.

Remaining tasks

Implement the suggestions
Design review
Test

User interface changes

Better widget than textarea for managing the list items. Something similar to https://www.drupal.org/project/options_element

API changes

None

Data model changes

None

📌 Task
Status

Fixed

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Field UI 

Last updated about 9 hours ago

Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom lewisnyman Nomadic

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