In the various Field UI admin pages, Field Group puts the additional settings and help text in a vertical tabs thingy. But it's the only tab in the set and having a vertical tabs display with only one item just adds clutter to every Field UI form. It works much better as a simple collapsed fieldset, which tucks it out of the way and makes it easier to get to the 'Save' button at the bottom of the page. See screenshots.

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#8 field-ui-with-ds.png161.22 KBnils.destoop
#5 field-ui-additional-settings-2.patch78.45 KBSeanA
#3 field-ui-additional-settings.patch3.49 KBSeanA
Screenshot-20151102-161925.png51.08 KBSeanA
Screenshot-20151102-162030.png21.6 KBSeanA

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Title: Use fieldset instead of vertical tab in Field UI » Use fieldset instead of vertical tabs in Field UI
Status: Active » Needs review
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new field-ui-additional-settings.patch3.49 KB

Patch attached.

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 3: field-ui-additional-settings.patch, failed testing.

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new field-ui-additional-settings-2.patch78.45 KB

Well, the original file (field_group.field_ui.inc) contains Windows-style line endings, so git did likewise. This patch contains the original patch and converts the line endings to Unix.

There are two other files in the module with CRLF line endings:
/horizontal-tabs/horizontal-tabs.js
/multipage/multipage.js

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Status: Needs work » Needs review

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 5: field-ui-additional-settings-2.patch, failed testing.

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Title: Use fieldset instead of vertical tabs in Field UI » Change custom display settings to vertical tab
Status: Needs work » Active
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new field-ui-with-ds.png161.22 KB

Changing title. Fieldgroup should change the custom display settings to a vertical tab. Using fieldsets is ugly.
In example a screenshot where field ui has multiple vertical tabs. DS is also doing this, and he changes 'custom display settings' to a vertical tab.
As we always use DS in our projects, it was never noticed, that DS was changing the 'custom display settings'.

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As I never use Display Suite, there are no vertical tabs beneath the Field UI. When I add the Field Group module, a big ugly vertical tabs thing appears which only holds one thing, the Field Group special settings, which I don't use, cannot be collapsed, and only take up space. Using vertical tabs with only one item creates distraction and clutter. On the other hand, fieldsets can be collapsed, and can be collapsed by default, keeping these settings (which I have no use for) nicely out of the way and keeping the Field UI interface uncluttered.

I suggest putting them in a collapsed fieldset by default, unless DS in enabled, and then put them in the vertical tabs.

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Status: Active » Closed (outdated)