The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.After exporting a bunch of auto-detected packages, the checkbox to the left of each one has disappeared. I had thought it only removed the checkbox for packages that cannot be exported (like empty features).
I even made a change to a content type and it properly shows the "Changed" label but the checkbox to select it and export it from the front page still isn't shown.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | features_checkbox_not_shown_for-2699773-2.patch | 1.05 KB | mpotter |
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Comment #2
mpotter commentedThe original reasoning for hiding the checkbox for uninstalled modules is when a feature module is first moved to a new site, the config doesn't yet exist in Active store, and if you edited the uninstalled feature and exported it again you could lost the original config.
With the latest beta1 this seems to work better. If you move a package to a site without the active config and then click the link to edit the package, change it and click Write, it still keeps the original *.yml config files. This config is marked as "missing" when viewing the details of the package on the main features listing page.
So it doesn't seem like it is causing any data loss anymore.
In any case, found the routine that was hiding the checkbox. Removed the test for uninstalled modules. This restores the checkbox on a site that just exported the module that is uninstalled (where the active config already exists). But it still hides the checkbox in the case that this module is moved to a new site.
So, I think this simple change preserves the original intent while addressing the problem in this issue. And even when the checkbox is missing they can still edit and export the feature without losing config.
Comment #4
mpotter commentedCommitted to 97af8e7.