Meta issue: Features support for core component types added in D7 [#1083394]

There were a few additions to core in Drupal 7 that do not yet have Features support. Since the Features module provides support for core data types, presumably these too should be added. There are also items in core from prior to Drupal 7 that lack Features support, e.g., languages.

We'll need a separate issue for each addition. Here's a few for starters. Please add others.

Dashboard blocks. Or does this go in Boxes?
Date formats, see hook_date_formats() #1279928: Features Extra support for date_formats.
Date format types, see hook_date_format_types()
Filter format settings--in D6 these were stored as variables but in D7 they're stored with the format. Updating to features support needed?
Languages #1279938: Features support for languages.
Triggers #1113126: Exportable triggers and actions.
Shortcut sets #986968: Export shortcuts sets from the core Shortcut module.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	features-date_formats-1083394-4.patch	4.12 KB	derhasi

Comments

Comment #1

damienmckenna

TN, USA

commented 12 May 2011 at 21:37

Would also like to see this, particularly shortcut sets.

Comment #2

derhasi commented 11 August 2011 at 16:23

I'm currently working on the date_formats (especially date-formats-locale). Maybe i'll post a patch tomorrow ;)

Comment #3

derhasi commented 12 August 2011 at 09:40

Uh, the date_format is a complicated one. We have to pay attention to several topics.

* Implementation with hook_date_format_types will lock the format types (so they cannot be edited via UI)
* Default formats are stored in variable "date_format_$type", locale overrides are stored in database table
* values stored in {date_formats} can be locked too

I wanted to try to use hook_date_format_types_alter (and hook_date_formats_alter), but feautures does not seem to provide such functionality. So I'll stick with a custom hook.