When developing complex views, the FIELDS section of the Displays page may have many fields. Many times the fields are used for obscure purposes (such as for tokens in replacement patterns in headers or footers) and could be inadvertantly deleted. It would make the field's purpose more apparent if each field had a 'description' field which could be labeled 'token for footer' for example.

I have attached images so you can see what I mean.

P.S. I understand that ver 7.x-3.5 is not a priority but perhaps this could be incorporated in ver 8.x -- if it is not already available

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

There's already the UI Name field, which can be used for this purpose.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

Maybe it's called administrative name. In any case, it renames the field for the administrator in the UI, so you can put in something descriptive there.

mike_sandes’s picture

mike_sandes commented

Thanks for that - you learn something new everyday!!

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dawehner
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Status: Active » Fixed

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.