Add filters and sorting to the Field list report

Created on 28 January 2023, about 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

The "Field list" report is a very usefull page for site builders, but if there is a larger number of fields and fieldable entities, then it becomes very difficult to find anything.
It's a table with four columns: field name, the entity type where the field is used, the field type (including which modules provides the field), and a link to each bundle where the field is actually used.
The table is sorted by the "entity type" so that all fields used for example in nodes are grouped together, but with many node types and fields that still becomes very long. It's also not possible to find all fields provided by a specific module or so.

Site builders often use their own work-arounds to make the table more workable, for example by having naming conventions such as "field_page_image" and "field_article_image", but options to filter and sort the list would help both new site builders and those maintaining complex sites.

Steps to reproduce

Visit /admin/reports/fields on a site with many fields.

Proposed resolution

  • Add a sorting option for each column
  • Add a text search to search through the field names
  • Preferably: split the column "Field type" into two colums: one for the field type and one for the module that provides it

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

Feature request
Status

Closed: duplicate

Version

10.1

Component
Field 

Last updated about 16 hours ago

Created by

🇳🇱Netherlands ifrik

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