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Having arbitrary lenght field descriptions (help text) in a Views table can make this module unusable.
It should be pretty simple for a developer and super useful for a site administrator.. 🙏🏻
Comments
Comment #2
gilmordThis module relays on what you have configured in the form mode, it does not interact with the widget and only renders it.
Consider hiding description on the form mode level
See this issue as a reference:
https://www.drupal.org/project/editablefields/issues/3390633#comment-154...
Comment #3
kopeboyNo: we cannot define the field's help text for each form mode.
And you do build and edit the form in your code, e.g. removing the title
, so would it be possible to remove the help text element as well?
Otherwise the only workaround would be to hide it with CSS.. if there is a class to target.
Comment #4
paulrad commentedHi, guys!
I've worked on the requested functionality in the module that addresses the entity form issues (previously labels and now help text too).
Please, consider using it in your project in such cases.
Project - Entity Form/Display Field Label
Issue - Add possibility to alter field's help text (descriptions)
Comment #5
gilmordPerfect, Entity Form/Display Field Label can now handle both title and description.
Looks like we do not need $instance['label'] = '' this code and can relay on external modules to interact with the wigets.
Comment #6
gilmordComment #7
gilmordComment #8
gilmord$instance['label'] = '';
This code was in drupal7, it is not supported by the maintainers, so we can skip this unless comunity implement solutions for title/description for d7 version