- Issue created by @maxilein
- Status changed to Closed: won't fix
about 1 year ago 5:59pm 5 November 2023 - πΊπΈUnited States apmsooner
Sorry but I strongly disagree with the statement that the name is confusing and doesn't explain the purpose of the module. "Custom field" explains exactly what the module provides... a field that is "custom" meaning that no assumptions are made how the user wants to compose a field and using the field types and widgets this module provides allows the user to make indeed a "Custom" field to their desire. I'd say if this module was ever to be made a candidate for Drupal Core, let the powers to be debate a more suitable name but we are a long ways from that consideration. I do appreciate you using the module however and the consideration of its future. Please continue to promote the merit of its usefulness to the community and ultimately a larger community base speaks louder than you or me alone in the viability of it being a staple module. Thank you!
- π¦πΉAustria maxilein
What if someone who is new to drupal googles: how to create a custom field in Drupal?
Have you considered that duplicity in meaning? - πΊπΈUnited States apmsooner
What if someone googled "how to create an address field in Drupal" and landed on the Address module page? Personally, I really don't see the issue. Honestly, why would someone want to create a "custom" field manually when my module provides all the scaffolding to handle majority of use cases? So YES, I want people to search "custom field" and land on my module page which saves them a significant amount of time in what would normally require a considerable amount of time to scaffold all the files to together. The ability to do this through the UI in my opinion is a huge advantage over other CMS's and encourages a field architecture that is frankly a whole lot better than the archaic every field is a table concept. To answer your question, yes I have considered the duplicity in meaning and it is very intentional by design. I think it's good as is but people can certainly choose to just not use it if they object to the name or anything else. Open source is a wonderful thing ;)