Posted by jhedstrom on November 12, 2009 at 4:45pm
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Similar to #552654: Manage Fields and Display Fields links from the Content Types operation table, but for the taxonomy admin page at admin/structure/taxonomy/list.
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#1
#2
hmm, really? I would like us to, consider the usecase before we draw this consistently line.
#3
re Bojhan: Well, exact same use case than #552654: Manage Fields and Display Fields links from the Content Types operation table.
The only difference is that core ships with no default fields on taxonomy terms (term name or description have not been moved to be 'fields' in D7), but I don't think this makes those links less valid here than on the 'content types' list.
#4
Well I understand, but to me that difference is fundamental. In a sense that - we probably do not need to expose these features, unless it starts making sense to use them? Ohh, darn - I will edit this later1
#5
IMO the lack of consistency between 'content types' list and 'vocabularies lists' will be annoying pretty quick.
There's a 'Manage fields' page behind both, why isn't there a quicklink for vocabs ?
#6
I had a discussion w/ Bojhan in #drupal about this. He brought up some good points.
In contrast to content types, which are nearly completely useless without fields, this is not true of any other entity (arguable for users). Adding additional fields to taxonomy terms and comments are both a 1% use case at best (http://drupal.org/project/usage/taxonomy_image shows ~3,500 / ~200,000 users, http://drupal.org/project/usage/comment_upload shows ~3,000 / ~200,000), where adding them to content types is at least a 50% use case (http://drupal.org/project/usage/cck shows ~115,000 / ~200,000 users... way more if you consider that on each one of those sites there are probably 90% of the content types using it). It therefore makes sense to me that the UI for adding fields for content types would be more prominent than adding fields to comments, taxonomy terms, etc.
I do share the consistency concerns, though. We don't want to bury this remarkable feature of Drupal 7 too deeply.
#7
What about: display the links the moment *some* vocab has some existing fields ?
#8
That could actually make sense. Have to ponder about it some more.
#9
This seems to be resolved in the current build. I currently see the "Manage Fields" and "Manage Display" tabs in the taxonomy management screens (e.g. /admin/structure/taxonomy/1), regardless of whether or not any fields have been assigned to any vocabularies. I'm a little new at this but am assuming that marking "needs review" is the right action.
#10
"Needs review" is for patches.