Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Originally requested here: https://github.com/farmOS/farm_area/issues/2
For the logging of anything it would be nice if the area was a dropdown of all areas that have been added. I think having as many fields as dropdown as there can be would be very helpful.
My response:
I agree! This would not be a difficult change to make. When I originally created the area reference fields, I decided to make them use Drupal's "Autocomplete (free tagging)" widget type - because it allowed you to EITHER select an existing area, OR create a new one, all with the same field. This is convenient, but I think in most cases people will (and maybe should) create their areas ahead of time, and then reference them from the logs - so the ability to create new areas on-the-fly may not be necessary (or advisable). We could make this change quite simply by changing the widget to a dropdown, which is an option provided by Drupal core already.
Comments
Comment #2
m.stentaSee also: #2758907: Area reference fields have 128 character limit
I closed that issue in favor of this one. I think a dropdown is a nice simple first step, and we can reasses when areas become assets (#2363393: Make "Area" into a type of Farm Asset) - most likely in Drupal 8 (#2361735: [META] Map out Drupal 8 / farmOS 8.x-2.x Dependencies).
Comment #3
m.stentaI believe the dropdown widget has the option of including hierarchy in it as well, so we should definitely enable that option - it will make browsing a long list of areas easier.
Comment #4
m.stenta@kadaan created two pull requests for this in Github:
https://github.com/farmOS/farm_log/pull/1
https://github.com/farmOS/farm_soil/pull/1
Comment #6
m.stentaThese are both merged. Case closed! Thanks @kadaan.
Comment #8
m.stentaMoving old issues to the canonical farmOS project for easier searching. Apologies for email spam if anyone is following these. :-)