Consider removing the 'Field list' reports

Created on 11 April 2024, 9 months ago
Updated 12 April 2024, 9 months ago

Problem/Motivation

โœจ Add a new permission for 'Field list' report Needs work prompted some discussion of why this report exists and some folks thought it should be removed. Discuss and if agreed, remove the report.

Note that the corresponding 'Used in views' report would also need to be removed from views_ui module first as it relies on this routing. No point in trying to update that if we don't think it should exist at all.

Remaining tasks

  1. Decide whether to remove it
  2. Make a MR for that
  3. Review
  4. Commit

User interface changes

Field list report and Used in views reports would no longer be available.

Field list report on fresh install:

Used in views report on fresh install:

๐Ÿ“Œ Task
Status

Active

Version

11.0 ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Component
Field UIย  โ†’

Last updated 6 days ago

Created by

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia pameeela

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  • Issue created by @pameeela
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia pameeela
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธUnited States dww

    -1 to removing it, seems like a useful overview of a site, especially ones you didnโ€™t build yourself.

    Maybe it should move to Structure somewhere?

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom catch

    I think this was more useful when fields could be re-used across entity types, now they're per-entity type, so it's much more straightforward to check this information in the actual field UI - at least with a low-ish number of bundles.

    @dww have you ever used this report?

    To me this could live in https://www.drupal.org/project/site_audit โ†’

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia pameeela

    I have used it a handful of times to try to get a handle on a siteโ€™s content model, probably in mapping out a migration or rebuild. If you arenโ€™t familiar with the site and it has a lot of paragraph types for example, it can give you an idea what is being used where. Thatโ€™s especially true if there are nested paragraphs.

    There are probably better ways to do it though, and I canโ€™t say I would be particularly bothered if it were removed.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นItaly falcon03

    I personally use this report a lot especially to understand the architecture of websites I did not build myself, or just to remember how I handle data in websites built years earlier.

    Personally I think the only way to avoid such a report would be to get rid of sharing fields acros entity bundles entirely (which would in turn simplify field UI and maybe the internal Entity field API). Just my 2 cents

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