Follow up post, to catch up read the first post

This time I went to Drupal Dev Days in Milan to work some more on the new Field UI proposal. @Bojhan a UX specialist suggested to use images/tiles to make it easier to use, he started working on designing some images, while I adapted the code.

While changing the code @DaveReid found a solution for Allow plugins to declare field type dependencies, which got committed, got reverted and got committed in an adapted form, the problem was that we needed to be able to add a dependency on more than only a module.

We finally figured out all coding details and most of the images/icons are already done, so the new interface looks like this

How can other modules provide a tile

Since it's plugin based contrib modules that provide a field can easily provide their own tile, as an example we'll use the address module

Add a file src/Plugin/DreamField/DreamFieldAddress.php with the following code

<?php
/**
 * @file
 * Add an address.
 */

namespace Drupal\address\Plugin\DreamField;


/**
 * Plugin implementation of 'address'.
 *
 * @DreamField(
 *   id = "address",
 *   label = @Translation("Address"),
 *   description = @Translation("This will add an input field for an address and will be outputted using the defaults."),
 *   provider = "address",
 *   preview = "images/address-dreamfields.png",
 *   field_types = {
 *     "address"
 *   },
 * )
 */
class DreamFieldAddress extends \Drupal\dream_fields\DreamFieldPluginBase {

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function saveForm($label, $required, $values, $entityTypeId, $bundle) {
    $this->field_name = $this->createFieldMachineName($label);
    $this->widget_id = 'address_default';
    $this->entityTypeId = $entityTypeId;
    $this->bundle = $bundle;

    $this->field_storage_values = [
      'type' => 'address',
    ];

    $this->field_values = [
      'label' => $label,
      'required' => $required,
    ];

    $this->field_display_values = [
      'label' => 'above',
    ];

    $this->createFieldStorageAndField();
  }

}

Next steps

• decide which field should be shown on this screen
• provide a default image is a contrib module does not provide a preview image
• decide on the wording of the description for each field

Contribute?

Have a look at the issue, the goal is to add this as an experimental module in the next release.