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Make it easy to change node type when creating content

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Created on 16 June 2009, almost 16 years ago
Updated 8 March 2025, 3 months ago

If a user starts out creating a page, they might not be too sure exactly what the difference is between, say, a page and an article. The user may thus be hesitant to commit to creating a page when they might actually need an article. This patch adds a select list to the top of node forms that allows users to switch node form through AJAX. This is useful because not only can users see the differences between the various forms easily, but they can start creating a page, and then switch to an article on the fly if they decide that would better suit their purposes. The content is transferred to the extent possible from one node form type to another, and all data is preserved for the case that the user decides to switch back to the original form. This patch will not make any difference for browsers without javascript or with javascript disabled. A series of screenshots below:



📌 Task
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

node system

Created by

🇺🇸United States cwgordon7

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  • Comment 3 months ago →
    🇪🇸Spain fjgarlin
  • Comment 2 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

    Thanks!

  • Status changed to Closed: won't fix 4 days ago
  • Comment 4 days ago →
    🇦🇺Australia acbramley

    Given this hasn't had any meaningful activity in 11 years I'm marking this as a won't fix.

    I can see many UX issues with what is being proposed in the IS, mainly around different bundles having different fields and data loss.

    If anyone is interested in implementing this, I would recommend doing so in contrib and then creating an issue to get buy in for moving the functionality into core.

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