Human-readable field name [#664380]

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	requiredfield_after.png	7.41 KB	Bojhan
#2	fieldsettingscleanups.patch	1.25 KB	Bojhan
#1	humanreadablefield_before.png	7.9 KB	Bojhan
#1	humanreadablefield_after.png	7.7 KB	Bojhan
#1	fieldsettinghumanreadable.patch	963 bytes	Bojhan

Comment #1

Bojhan commented 20 December 2009 at 15:05

Status	File	Size
new	fieldsettinghumanreadable.patch	963 bytes
new	humanreadablefield_after.png	7.7 KB
new	humanreadablefield_before.png	7.9 KB

The reason for doing this is that - unless machine name is applicable, we should not mention that it is the human-readable name. As this causes confusion, machine readable UI should be an exception to object names - not a standard.

This because its somewhat implied that the organism sitting in front of the computer is human.

Before

After

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Comment #2

Bojhan commented 20 December 2009 at 15:09

Status	File	Size
new	fieldsettingscleanups.patch	1.25 KB
new	requiredfield_after.png	7.41 KB

I also saw we had, the text - check if a value must be provided. Into Required field, as required on it self means nothing.

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Comment #3

yched commented 20 December 2009 at 21:09

Status:

Needs review

» Reviewed & tested by the community

Sounds like a good move.

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Comment #4

moshe weitzman commented 21 December 2009 at 21:00

Machine readable matters a lot to developers of the site. We can't fully hide this. And these are the exact people who use the admin fields pages. These field names are used by css folks, module developers, preprocess impelmenters, and so on.