create a UI pathway from adding a new field collection to working with its own fields [#1656860]

I added a field collection to a node type, and thought, 'Now what'?

It doesn't seem that there's a pathway to go from the field collection's normal field admin in the host entity to editing the fields on the collection.

Comments

Comment #1

joachim CreditAttribution: joachim commented 24 June 2012 at 09:35

Possible ways to fix this:

- simple: show a message on creation of a field group with a link to edit its fields. simple, but the it's one-time only
- show help text on the FC field admin tabs with the links to edit its fields.
- show a local task link when in the 'edit' tab of the field collection field
- show the FC entity's 'manage fields' and 'manage display' tabs as tabs alongside the FC field's admin tabs (nice, but may cause some VERY deep menus, and a variety of form redirections may end up seeming broken).

Comment #2

RobW CreditAttribution: RobW commented 30 June 2012 at 20:16

Nice issue.

I think the best would be a field groups-like interface on the manage fields tab, with adding and drag and drop underneath the field collection, but that would probably involve a lot of custom code to create and update entity fields from the node field ui.

Comment #3

ghilsman CreditAttribution: ghilsman commented 14 February 2013 at 16:46

Version:	7.x-1.x-dev	» 7.x-1.0-beta5
Category:	bug	» feature

I "second" the comment in #2. I might be naive about it, but seems like the code for this functionality could be borrowed from the field_group module and edited appropriately.