Manage content editing forms

This documentation is written for the 7.x-2.x version of Display Suite.

Display Suite allows you to manage the display of content editing forms for entities (such as nodes, views, comments, users, et cetera). This can be useful if you want to provide the users of your website with a customized edit form.

When enabled Display Suite Forms takes over the Drupal core functionality that let you arrange the fields via the "Manage fields” tab.

Manage display of an editing form

• Enable the sub module Display Suite Forms at Administration > Modules (admin/modules)
• Go to Administration > Structure > Display Suite (admin/structure/ds)
• Click "Manage form" for the entity (e.g., "User") that you like to change
• In the vertical tab "Layout for ... in form" choose the desired layout template (e.g. "Two column") and click "Apply"
• Start arranging the layout by dragging fields to regions ("Header”, "Left”, et cetera).
• Save the changes

Note: if the module Field Group is installed you can place form elements inside containers like vertical tabs.