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Cross-link content type settings from node add/edit form

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Created on 26 February 2009, over 16 years ago
Updated 19 March 2025, 4 months ago

Motivation

Some users go to the content section, rather than the structure section, looking for options to edit content types.

Proposed resolution

On the node/add page, add links to edit the content types as well, for users who have the right permissions. This provides another way of navigating to admin/structure/types/manage/[node-type]

Remaining tasks

Summary of API changes
Needs usability review; see #59

User interface changes

Adds links to admin/structure/types/manage/[node-type] for each node type on the node/add page

Screenshot of UI before patch:

Latest screenshot of UI after patch ( from comment #50 → ):

Latest screenshot of UI after patch ( from comment #61 → ):

Proposed by YesCT in #384150-59: Cross-link content type settings from node add/edit form →

Related Issues

Original report by catch →

Many users go to the node/add and node/edit forms looking for settings (submitted information, input formats). We should consider adding links there to the admin screens for those form elements when users have the relevant permissions.

📌 Task
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

node system

Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom catch

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  • Comment 4 months ago →
    🇦🇺Australia acbramley

    Is this something that's still desirable? We're close to 9 years without a comment here and IMO the screenshots in the IS don't provide very good UX.

  • Status changed to Closed: outdated 25 days ago
  • Comment 25 days ago →
    🇦🇺Australia acbramley

    It's been 3 months since #92 and 9 years since the last comment before so I'm closing this for now.

  • Comment 11 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States xjm

    Looking at the original issue summary, I think the majority of points are no longer relevant with modern Drupal's IA and themes. The IA deliberately separates content from configuration.

    Saving credits for the many contributors over the years, including contributions by sprinters.

    @lucaswoj, I'm sorry your first open source patch was never incorporated into Drupal core, but it did help us decide what to do overall, and that's helpful too. :) I hope you found your home in another open source project!

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