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.Currently there seems to be no configuration option for quick edit.
When you create a site using blocks and views on the front page, Quick Edit, Edit and Delete option appear for each block. This also destroys the style of the site.
What is missing? We only need a small [pen] icon displayed next to the title and the options Quick Edit, Edit and Delete should only be opened when you click or hover the pen. This makes it much better for iPad use, too.
Even better: create a config option to only show one or two out of the three options. Really, when embedded in the front page, the option Delete becomes rather dangerous than a feature!
Personally, i would suggest a pen symbol for the quick edit option and that's fine. For Delete and Edit, the user shall open the full node and click edit. You only need the button if you fix something inline. For everything else, two clicks are worth to do.
Comments
Comment #2
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commentedComment #4
Wim Leers… that means your theme is broken: it's not robust enough to support contextual links. What you're talking about are contextual links, not Quick Edit.
Comment #5
Wim LeersIf you want to propose to change how contextual links work, please provide a more complete proposal. We didn't just design/decide this approach overnight. This has been in use since Drupal 7, i.e. for more than half a decade.
Comment #7
jcmartinezI'm surprised that this issued was closed and it didn't receive more consideration. Could you consider reopening?
The request was simple: "create a config option to only show one or two out of the three options". With this, the administrator can decide what options to offer to the editor.
Quick edits tried to improve usability but it did it in a very unusable way. It takes 3 clicks to start editing the content; that isn't quick. In fact if you go to edit content through the Edit tab it only takes 2 clicks; which is quicker. In addition, it takes effort and curiosity for a non-informed user to discover how Quick Edit works. If you are not told by some one else or if you haven't read about it; you will probably miss that it is there. Every time I tell my clients that they have this functionality on their sites, they look at me surprised. It is not obvious.
To be really usable, Quick Edit should work without contextual links at all. The user should get the clue that a field is editable seeing the pen icon near the field (useful on mobile) and by highlighting the field on mouse hovering (useful on desktop). One click on top of the editable element should be the only thing required to trigger the quick edit.
Please, consider reopening this issue as it is about adding configurations to the Quick Edit module, not about how contextual links work.