Display view option descriptions in the Manage form display and Manage display pages

Created on 29 June 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 11 March 2024, 8 months ago

Problem/Motivation

📌 Give display modes a description Fixed added descriptions to the view most list tables, but these could improve UX by adding them to the Manage form display and Manage display pages as well. It gets its own issue as there are design considerations and other questions that will get better quality solutions if it isn't mixed up in the implementation-in-code issue.

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Proposed resolution

Get some design input on how to best incorporate the descriptions, then add them to the Manage form display and Manage display pages

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

📌 Task
Status

Active

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Entity 

Last updated about 11 hours ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States bnjmnm Ann Arbor, MI

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  • Issue created by @bnjmnm
  • 🇺🇸United States bnjmnm Ann Arbor, MI
  • 🇺🇸United States mortona2k Seattle

    Resurfacing some points from the parent issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3364659#comment-15129593 📌 Give display modes a description Fixed

    Agree with you that we'd need to show this on:

    The view mode list, same way as we have descriptions on node lists
    The view mode form on the entity Manage Display/Manage Form Display

    Something similar to what Display Mode Guidelines is doing, but it'll need some work to create the mocks/come up with a visual solution to know where to place it and how it needs to look like, so a follow-up to discuss it would be great and we don't block this work.

  • 🇺🇸United States mortona2k Seattle

    The Display Mode Guidelines module adds an extra guidelines field to the view mode config and sets a message to display it on the manage display tab. It doesn't show the description field.

    An alternative to adding a message is to update the help text for the page and add details about the display. Seeing other bundles it's enabled for would be useful too.

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