Bring back DS forms [#2470169]

Display Suite Forms was removed from the 8.x version.

There's a branch ds_forms (http://cgit.drupalcode.org/ds?h=ds_forms) which works a little for now (currently selecting a layout, but needs a lot of work).

We're currently not planning to add it back ourselves because of a couple of reasons:

- forms have form modes
- fields can be hidden

Either someone can work on that branch or even create a new contrib module.

Comments

Comment #1

davidwbarratt CreditAttribution: davidwbarratt as a volunteer commented 26 November 2015 at 22:36

The only use case I can think of is if you wanted a custom layout (per form mode) of a form. For instance if you wanted a custom layout for the User Registration form vs. the User Edit form; etc. Right now form modes are exactly what Display Modes are without Display Suite.

Comment #2

aspilicious CreditAttribution: aspilicious commented 26 November 2015 at 22:49

you have form modes and you have fieldgroup, should be enough

Comment #3

davidwbarratt CreditAttribution: davidwbarratt as a volunteer commented 26 November 2015 at 22:51

No it's not.

You could say the same thing about Display Suite for "Manage Display". Is Display modes and Field Group enough?

Comment #4

davidwbarratt CreditAttribution: davidwbarratt as a volunteer commented 26 November 2015 at 22:51

I'm not saying this needs to be part of Display Suite; but I think there's a need for assigning a form mode to a layout.

Comment #5

aspilicious CreditAttribution: aspilicious commented 27 November 2015 at 07:19

DS also injects custom fields AND provides field templates. Things you'll never have on a form display.

So that is the difference.

The big problem is that there is no clean wat to achieve this. I don't want a buggy, half broken DS forms module. We had it in D7... It could lead to very nasty bugs.