Especially for newbies in sense of Drupal and/or web programming the field "machine name" is quite confusing. It was suggested ([1]) to just generate it onblur and not to confuse the user with that.

To keep flexible it should be possible to edit that name afterwards.

[1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/7043

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Bevan’s picture

Bevan commented

tag for drupal newbie

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

huh? generate a machine name during a javascript event? i do not follow ... i think specifiying a machine name is very handy. note that CCK fields and Views both have this concept. Perhaps we just need to standardize on terminology.

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Bevan commented

The suggestion was to automatically (with JS) create a machine name ('Type') based on more-human name ('Name') and populate the 'Type' field with it (also with JS).

I agree that specifying a machine name is very handy. This would streamline that process for common names and users that don't know or care about the machine name.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

oh - good idea.

dpearcefl’s picture

dpearcefl commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

Closing due to lack of response.

Bevan’s picture

Bevan commented
Version: 6.x-dev » 7.0
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Fixed

Actually this was fixed in D7.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.