I'm not a big fan of the placement of the fields settings for users. When starting with drupal 7, it was my immediate instinct to look for the fields settings at admin/people...where you can edit those fields for your users. The tucking away of this important feature under so many menus / clicks doesn't seem to match its importance and is confusing for newbies to find.

If there's enough support for this, I'll be happy to make (or try to make) the patch.

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karens’s picture

karens commented
Issue tags: +#d8ux

I totally agree that the current placement is a total WTF for most people. It is way too hard to discover. I'm not sure that moving it under people is the total solution, I really feel that we need a central location for all the Manage fields pages. It's crazy that if you want to manage fields on nodes you go to admin/structure/types/manage/page/fields and if you want to manage fields on comments you go to admin/structure/types/manage/page/comment/fields, but at least most people have learned how to find those. Then if you want to manage fields on users you go to admin/config/people/accounts/fields (a whole different section of the administration area, config instead of structure, and buried), and if you want to manage fields on taxonomy you go to admin/structure/taxonomy/tags/fields.

I'd like to see something more like 'admin/structure/fields/content/page' and 'admin/structure/fields/user' and 'admin/structure/fields/taxonomy/tags'.

The downside of that is then the fields don't show up on the same path as the content they're added to, which is why they are where they are now.

So one solution would be to add a simple page with links to all the Manage fields screens at 'admin/structure/fields'. The Display Suite module provides this now, but it is such a WTF that I think core should do it. You could take a look at the code that module uses for a clue in how to create such a page.

With this change, the fields would actually stay where they are, but there would be an easy and much more discoverable way to see where to change all of them.

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jody lynn
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I think these are two separate issues.

admin/config/people is a WTF for me since admin/people exists. I think we should get rid of admin/config/people and have admin/people/config.

KarenS's idea of a central interface for managing all fields is also a good addition.

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yesct commented

related issue #715972: People section(s) are very confusing

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

How about moving *all* of the stuff from admin/config/people to admin/people? This is really the same issue as #715972: People section(s) are very confusing actually.