Really surprised this isn't already possible, as it is with custom fields.

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USE CASE:
Have many custom content types. All share many of the same fields, which are grouped by fieldgroups. Each node add form using Display Suite to highly customize lengthy forms.

Why must new field group for each one? Fields can be reused among content types. Can't safely clone the whole content type/form display/node display.

Be great to have reusable field groups. Else maybe need to look at Field Collections?

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See also: http://drupal.org/node/1478636 (issue queue)

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Stalski’s picture

Stalski CreditAttribution: Stalski commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Currently you can clone fieldgroups and for your use case that fits most of the needs. If you really want to have them stored to reuse them, features is a option.

for what you said in the other issue:
Fieldgroup is not a field. Fields has the complete field api including the storage system. Fields exist in instances of a field. Fieldgroup don't.
I hope you can understand that I don't want to write another system that does exactly the same thing as fields. So the only way out there is for fieldgroups to become fields. For several reasons we decided that they are not fields, they can only wrap fields.
That's a decision we made from the start to avoid having to deal with tuns of issues about logic.

Sorry that I don't have the solution (maybe one day it'll come).

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greta_drupal CreditAttribution: greta_drupal commented

Sorry, I have missed where/how to clone fieldgroups from one content type to another? Can you explain? (I know that you can clone them from another build mode of same content type. Appreciate that.)

knalstaaf’s picture

knalstaaf CreditAttribution: knalstaaf commented

Checked this and this documentation page, but found nothing on the cloning either.

Could you briefly push us in the right direction please?

Stalski’s picture

Stalski CreditAttribution: Stalski commented
Version: 7.x-1.1 » 7.x-1.x-dev

Cloning happens on the destination view mode (E.g. teaser). There you can select which field_group of the same entity_type can be cloned from.
Please checkout the dev version for this feature.