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'Display "@display" needs a selected search fields' message is confusing

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Created on 1 July 2024, 2 months ago
Updated 6 August 2024, about 1 month ago

Problem/Motivation

The Entity Reference Views display plugin has a very confusing validation message: 'Display "@display" needs a selected search fields to work properly. See the settings for the Entity Reference list format.' (EntityReference.php#L224).

Grammatically, it baffles me. What is "a [singular] selected search fields [plural]"? Also, shouldn't "Entity Reference list" be in quotes since it's a technical term? (Otherwise you can't tell if it's supposed to be '"Entity Reference list" format' or '"Entity Reference" "list format"'.) I think that if I were an inexperienced user I wouldn't have any idea what was going on or how to fix it.

Steps to reproduce

Create a new View, add an "Entity Reference" display, and see the Error message, e.g., "Display "Entity Reference" needs a selected search fields to work properly. See the settings for the Entity Reference list format."

Proposed resolution

I think if we just quote the technical terms (i.e., field names) it will clear things up.

Remaining tasks

tbd

User interface changes

UI string.

<!-- <h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3> --><!-- <h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3> -->

Release notes snippet

📌 Task
Status

Fixed

Version

10.4 ✨

Component
Views  →

Last updated about 11 hours ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States TravisCarden

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