Analogous to blocks, adding a "region" to fields would allow themers to place rendered field content in regions other than the default "content" region.

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damien tournoud’s picture

damien tournoud commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

Drupal 7 is long feature-frozen, bumping to Drupal 8.

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yched commented

Although it's not its primary goal, the work in #616240: Make Field UI screens extensible from contrib - part II *might* make it possible for a contrib to add hardcoded 'regions' (i.e something like what http://drupal.org/project/ds does, without the need to rebuild its own 'Manage display' screens).

It's also something you could use D7 fieldgroups for. Organize the fields into groups, add CSS classes to define custom groups layout.
Fieldgroups D7 is not ready yet, though.

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yched commented
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A side effect of #616240: Make Field UI screens extensible from contrib - part II is to allow 'regions' to be added from contrib.