Move all entity view display components to 'hidden' when Layout Builder is enabled

Created on 20 March 2023, about 2 years ago

Updated 15 February 2024, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

When Layout Builder is enabled for an entity, the UI containing the table displaying fields and their display settings is deactivated. It is no longer possible to update those display settings via the UI. I think they stop having any functional purpose too because whatever the Layout Builder settings are is going to determine what gets displayed. They continue to be stored in config in whatever state they were in when Layout Builder was enabled. When using a system like Config Split to maintain different versions of an entity view display config, things like weights of fields present as false positives to changed configuration.

Steps to reproduce

Standard site install
Add fields to page content type
Export config and note the presence of the fields in the content section of the core.entity_view_display.node.page.default config.
Enable Layout Builder for the page content type
Export config again and note that the content section of the core.entity_view_display.node.page.default config remains unchanged.

Proposed resolution

I propose that when Layout Builder is enabled for an entity type, all the fields ("components" in Entity View Display terminology) should get removed from content and moved to hidden.

Remaining tasks

Write a test
Add code to resolve the test

User interface changes

None, I think.

API changes

None, I think.

Data model changes

None, I think.

Release notes snippet

✨ Feature request

Status

Closed: duplicate

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

Layout builder →

Last updated about 24 hours ago

Maintained by
🇺🇸United States @tedbow
🇺🇸United States @dyannenova
🇺🇸United States @tim.plunkett

Created by

🇺🇸United States pyrello

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Issue created by @pyrello
Comment about 1 year ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom longwave UK
For me this also just caused ✨ Prevent auto-adding new fields to LB layouts Needs review to occur on deploy; fields in the entity view display were automatically added to the layout builder layout, which I didn't want to happen. There was no way to fix from the UI but manually editing the YAML to move the fields from content to hidden seems to have solved it.
Status changed to Closed: duplicate about 1 year ago6:03am 15 February 2024
Comment about 1 year ago →
🇳🇿New Zealand danielveza Brisbane, AU
Thanks for raising an issue!

This is a duplicate, closing in favour of 📌 Automatically clear out the content key in view display when enabling Layout builder Active
Comment about 1 year ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom longwave UK

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