Field UI not enabled on a D6 upgrade ? [#939914]

Comment	File	Size	Author
#7	D6_upgrade_field_ui.patch	503 bytes	yched

Comment #1

furamag commented 18 October 2010 at 21:45

I don't think this issue is a bug. There are few issues about this new functionality. For example http://drupal.org/node/937728. It looks like this should be "feature request" or "support request" but not bug.

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Comment #2

jeff veit commented 19 October 2010 at 23:26

It's a bug in the beta because the default installation profile doesn't include Fields UI being turned on.

So you can make taxonomies, but unless you have Fields UI turned on, which you won't know to do if you are testing Drupal for the first time; you won't be able to do anything at all with your newly created taxo.

You might as well have Taxo module turned off. At least that wouldn't introduce any confusion about the point of taxonomies that you can't use for anything.

Or have Fields UI turned on by default, which probably makes more sense.
Or have another mechanism, similar to D6, to apply taxos when Fields UI is off but Taxo is on.
Or make Taxo a dependent of Fields UI.

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Comment #3

servantleader commented 19 October 2010 at 23:45

I expect new users to be very frustrated with this. It at least needs a message that tells them what they have to do (enable Fields UI, add a Taxonomy reference field, etc.). It is these kind of bad experiences that give Drupal a reputation of being non user friendly.
When I stared with Drupal 6, I wasted hours trying to figure out how to upload photos because there was an admin/settings/image-toolkit page that was completely useless. I was very close to giving up on Drupal all together. I am certain thousands of others had the same experience.

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Comment #4

yched commented 20 October 2010 at 16:18

"It's a bug in the beta because the default installation profile doesn't include Fields UI being turned on."

?

field_ui is enabled in the standard profile, see profiles/standard/standard.info

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Comment #5

jeff veit commented 20 October 2010 at 21:36

Now that is odd. I kept a list of what I had to do, and Fields UI was definitely switched off. I wonder if it could have been turned off by the theme. No wait: it was an upgrade - so Drupal 6 doesn't have a Fields UI. Are profile modules turned on during an upgrade? If not, that would be why. In which case every upgrade from D6 will seem to lose functionality.

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Comment #6

yched commented 20 October 2010 at 23:45

Title:	No way to apply a taxonomy to a content type without Fields UI	» Field UI not enabled on a D6 upgrade ?
Component:	taxonomy.module	» update system

retitling then

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Comment #7

yched commented 28 October 2010 at 23:46

Priority:	Normal	» Critical
Status:	Active	» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	D6_upgrade_field_ui.patch	503 bytes

Patch.

That's critical, IMO - as in : D7-1.0 cannot leave D6 upgraded sites without a Field UI, since this is the central hub for basic D6 core operations such as : edit 'body' settings, set teaser trim length, assign vocabs to node types...