By David Fiaty on

Hello everyone,

I am trying to programmatically copy a field from 1 content type to another one in D8. What works well with my code snippet: the content type fields are copied, the form display settings (manage form display) are copied.

What doesn't work: the display settings (manage display) are not. For example, a field with label "hidden" in the source content type will show label "above" after copy.

How are we supposed to programmatically get/set the display settings (label and format) of a field?

Thanks a lot for your answers.

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rockthedrop commented

I'm trying to do the same thing, either programmatically or scripted (during migration) via drush.

Other Settings are fine. I need to programmatically switch the form display widget to "Autocomplete (Tags Style"

thank you for any assistance or update.

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useernamee commented

I only needed to get the manage display settings and I did it like this: (I needed for each view mode)

// Get selected view modes for bundle
$view_modes = \Drupal::service('entity_display.repository')
  ->getViewModeOptionsByBundle(
    $entity_type, $bundle
  );

// Get format settings for field
foreach (array_keys($view_modes) as $view_mode) {
  $settings = \Drupal::service('entity_type.manager')
    ->getStorage('entity_view_display')
    ->load($entity_type . '.' . $bundle . '.' . $view_mode)
    ->getRenderer($field_name)
    ->getSettings();
  // Get settings I need.
}

Hope it helps.

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vasanthanand commented

How to set the display of particular field to hidden  by default progrmatically

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colepacak commented

thanks, useernamee. this is super helpful.

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Also see this documentation for helpful snippets: https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/update-api/updating-entities-and...

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