I guess there's probably a very good reason why not but I couldn't find any discussion on this in the CCK issues ...

  1. Would it be possible to edit the weight of all $content fields in CCK: ie title, taxonomy, body, locations, etc etc. ? ... Could CCK use hook_form_alter on comment_form_alter, taxonomy_form_alter, node_content_form, etc? (do I feel an module_forms.inc file coming on?)
  2. and then could the CCK Display Fields config options be applied to all $node->content fields ... 'submitted' etc ...? taking over somewhat from contemplate.module and node-#whatever.tpl.php ? ... I'm going too far aren't I ;)

Any thoughts / pointers welcome.

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zach harkey’s picture

zach harkey commented

This seems like the obvious evolution for Drupal. This would mitigate the need for a lot of hand coding templates. For instance, stuff like: "Display post information on" should be controlled here instead of in the global theme configuration (See my previous issue with this)

It would also be great to be able to tuck a lot of the rarely used fields that confuse my clients (e.g. Menu settings, Comment settings, URL path settings, File Authoring information, Publishing options, Log message, etc), into a collapsed fieldset called "Advanced options".

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JohnG-1 commented

Zach - have you seen Nedjo's formfilter module ? I think it implements some of the things you'd like ;-)

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catch
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

http://drupal.org/node/227421

This was partially implemented in D6 but removed again because the inconsistency is a bit confusing. I'd like to have all fields drag and droppable (with a note that the non-cck ones are 'system provided' or something. Marking this as duplicate of the more active issue.

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catch
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Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

Hmm, actually this isn't just about drag and drop - I think it covers the issue of having title/body in the settings fieldset whilst others are in the fields tab amongst other things. Bump, anyway.

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karens commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Core fields have been added to the Manage fields screen, so they can be re-arranged, and there is now a hook that other modules can use to add their fields to that screen.

Is there any remaining issue here? I'm not sure.

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yched commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

right, fixed now

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.