Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Steps to reproduce: Try to add a new content type.
The help texts for 'description' and 'submission guidelines' are confusing. As you can see at [1] the difference between those two doesn't get clear. Improve these help texts.
Setting this to "needs more info" - feel free to make suggestions here.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | beforeAddContentType.png | 3.09 KB | lisarex |
| #8 | afterAddContentType.png | 7.85 KB | lisarex |
| #8 | add_contenttype_202533_8.patch | 695 bytes | lisarex |
| #5 | add_content_helptxt.patch | 767 bytes | brunodbo |
Comments
Comment #1
keith.smith CreditAttribution: keith.smith commentedTo quote Gábor from http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-December/027977.html: "RC1 is string freeze, so whatever needs modifications in the strings is generally postponed to Drupal 7."
Comment #2
keith.smith CreditAttribution: keith.smith commented(changing status)
Comment #3
Bevan CreditAttribution: Bevan commentedplz tag for 'newbie (subscribing)
Comment #4
brunodboIt seems the help text under the 'Description' field is gone now in D7. I don't know if the text is meant to make it back in, I believe it would be useful to explain where this text is going to be displayed.
Anyway, here's a stab at it (the 'Description' field help text on /admin/content/types/add):
"A brief description of this content type. Like the content type's name, this text will be displayed as part of the list on the add new content page."
Comment #5
brunodboAttached patch adds the help text mentioned above.
Comment #6
Bevan CreditAttribution: Bevan commentedComment #7
keith.smith CreditAttribution: keith.smith commentedHow about something a bit more active:
"A brief description of this content type. Along with the content type's name, this text is displayed on the add new content page."
Comment #8
lisarex CreditAttribution: lisarex commentedI would make it even more active: "Describe this content type. It will be displayed on the Add new content page."
Comment #9
Bevan CreditAttribution: Bevan commentedThe patch looks good, simple and clean. It passed simpletests. The change seems obvious; "Why didn't we do this already!?".
One possible improvement is to make the
<em>Add new content</em>text into a link tonode/add/$node_type. Though this also inroduces the issue of taking the user away from the form and losing their unsaved changes. That is a larger problem in Drupal that needs addressing separately.Debating whether or not to make it a link or not shouldn't delay the simple text addition in this patch, so RTBC.
Comment #10
webchickHm. That's a good point, Bevan, but I think this will do for now.
Committed to HEAD. Thanks!