Views: Inconsistent duplicate field template names [#998082]

I have duplicated my title field. Using a numeric suffix, Views Advanced help is not consistent whether there is no separator, or whether an underscore, or hyphen is used:

Advanced help tells me:
"if there are two "title" fields in a view, one will be 'title' and the other will be 'title1'"
Theming information mentions:
Field Node: Title (ID: title)
Field Node: Title (ID: title_1)
Theming information template filenames mention:
views-view-field--title.tpl.php, etc
views-view-field--title-1.tpl.php

I think the Advanced help documentation just needs to mention that there will be a numeric suffix, and that

The field name uses an underscore as a separator
The field template filename uses a hyphen as a separator

Comment	File	Size	Author
#3	998082-adv-help-1.patch	2.02 KB	iamjon
#2	998082-adv-help.patch	2.91 KB	iamjon

Comments

Comment #1

merlinofchaos commented 14 December 2010 at 17:27

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Okay, so the advanced help is missing the separator, true.

It's standard across Drupal to try to avoid using underscores in template names, so all underscores are automatically converted to hyphens. This isn't just a Views convention. Plus, since it's giving you the precise filename, it's assumed that you will cut and paste it or use the theme: information page to verify.