The Features module is primarily for use by site developers to export elements of a site configuration for use in another site.
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I need to bring a site to version control, and set up the continuous Integration environment
I am an entrepreneur with a Drupal 6x project that started small enough to not need version control (per developers), but now I am convinced there is no way without it. There's extensive documentation ...
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Technical advantages of either Configuration or Features over the other?
In short, Configuration vs Features, in Drupal 7, fight!
As always, technical advantages, or other hard facts, as we don't do discussions here. Drupal 7 specific to limit to scope, as CMI vs Features ...
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Adding components to a feature via Drush
I understand using 'drush fu' to look for changes to any components of an existing feature, but is there a way to add a component to an existing feature using drush? Right now I have to use the /admin ...
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How should I balance Features and Installation Profile in a Code Driven Development workflow?
Drupal Installation Profiles (in Drupal 7) are pretty powerful and can do just about anything a module can do. I'm using an Installation Profile along with Features to develop my site, keeping ...
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Why would some features still show Overridden after a revert all --force?
Why would some features still show as "Overridden" even after running a full features revert with the force switch? Below are the commands I am running, for the sake of clarity.
drush fr-all --force ...
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How do I resolve this conflict between two Feature modules?
I have two content types with various menus, views, menus, etc. which I have packaged as two Feature custom modules. The two content types both use a taxonomy and use several of the same fields in ...
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features workflow issue (deleting a field)
Suppose I have a content type Person with fields: Name, Age, Email
This content type is controlled by a Feature called test so I can source control it and push it to the live site.
My workflow goes ...
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How do you change which content type a field is attached to (which one owns it?)
While exporting configuration for my site using the Features module, I noticed that one of the fields I use on many content types was initially created on the "news" content type instead of the ...
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Unable to delete feature content type after uninstalling feature
Issue
Uninstalling a feature which creates a content type hides the "Delete" link on the admin/structure/types.
Issue on Drupal.org
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Adding a theme suggestion programatically
I created a feature module containing only a view and a content type.
Right now my page-node-x.tpl.php and my views-view-y.tpl.php files lie in my themes directory.
Is it possible to move them into ...
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How to Import features back to database
I have lots of feature modules in my site. I want to import it back to database for upgrade purposes. Any idea how can I do that?
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Do features uninstall variables when a module is uninstalled?
I have created a module using The Features module. The module exports some variables using the Strongarm module.
If a person installs the module and then uninstalls it, will those variables be ...
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Export content in features using UUID features
I read the UUID feature description and it says it is used to export content in feature. I installed the module but did not know how to export the content.
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Exporting block settings in a Feature (Drupal 7)
I am trying to learn about creating a reasonable workflow between a development site and a production site and I have decided to use the Features module to help accomplish this task.
On my front page ...
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How to choose between Bean, Boxes and Fieldable Panels Panes?
Bean, Boxes and Fieldable Panels Panes all provide similar functionality. I have trouble understanding what exactly the differences between them are.
What are their advantages/disadvantages compared ...
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How does one create terms on hook_install if hook_taxonomy_default_vocabularies is used in the same module?
I'm attempting to create taxonomy terms in a module that provides the vocabulary needed to create these terms.
The issue I'm having is the vocabulary is not available upon install.
My module ...
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Is there an advantage to Featurizing a view, over using Views' export?
I've created a View in Drupal 6 with Views 2. If I want to get this view from my dev site to production, is there a compelling advantage offered by using Features over using the built-in Views export?
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How does `drush features-update` work?
I have made changes to a Feature on a Drupal 7 site. I want the same feature to be updated in another website. How to do it using the drush features-update command? When I run it, it asks to ...
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How to keep content out of features?
I have plenty of Panels pages that I track using the Features module. Currently, if I create put a Custom Content pane inside of a page, all of the content that is inside that pane is then stored in ...
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Export menu as feature?
How can I export a menu as a feature? I found the menu import module, but it does not work with this feature.
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When using features to manage deployment, should I break my functionality into many little features or one big feature?
I'm relatively new to the features module and I've read contradictory recommendations online regarding whether it's easiest to maintain A) one big feature or B) several smaller features and then a ...
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How to enable inactive fields
I have a content type with a field that has been set to inactive. This happened after I reverted my feature in an attempt to undo a change I made to the content type.
The error message given is the ...
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Auto-update of features?
On a production site, I don't want admins to be able to perform many tasks at all, to limit the risks the site is exposed to, so modules like "Views UI" will be turned off.
However, I still want a ...
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Does Strongarm need to be enabled on Production site using Features?
I'm using Features in order to make my site content configuration exportable for purposes of staging my server. I'll be using Strongarm to make some of the site variables exposed for management in a ...
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Can one feature module make additions to another feature module?
I would like to have two feature modules for users to enable. One basic and one advanced. For example, the basic feature creates a blog content type, with only title and body fields. The advanced ...
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Block-Placement in a Feature via Context
I have got a Feature consisting of a few boxes and a context which puts those boxes in the right regions. That works if I install drupal and my theme and activate the feature.
But it does not work if ...
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How can I make or render a website with wiki features(for e.g wikipedia) with Drupal?
The question is can I render wiki features in my website which is to be made with Drupal.For e.g if I make a website with tons of features how can Wiki feature be made functional with Drupal.If no ...
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How do I properly add css to my feature?
I have a feature that just contains a few views. How do I properly add a stylesheet to it?
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Customize a “Feature”
I'm trying to create a feature that includes an Automatic Nodetitle.
I want to change two things related to Automatic Nodetitle: Hide Title in content creation and populate the field with tokens.
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User roles and keeping their IDs when using features
I have defined some user roles and I'm assigning them to users through the rules module. I have created a feature with the rules and the roles and moved them to another site. My problem is that the ...
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Export multilingual settings with features
I'm using features to export 10 content types, but I don't get the multilingual settings. My question is, whether this is even possible, maybe with strongarm or I'm stuck having to change those ...
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How to export pseudo fields display configuration to code
How can I export the configuration of pseudo fields as set from the display configuration for my entities types and their bundles ? When exporting a normal fields instance (with Features) its display ...
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How to make a Feature available only to certain Spaces?
For a Drupal 6 Open Atrium site (i.e., Features, Spaces, Organic Groups) I'm running, I've created some custom Features that only really apply to a handful of the hundreds of groups on the site.
As ...
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What could cause the Features create page to time out?
The site I'm working on is timing out when I try to open the admin/structure/features/create page. I'm not experiencing the problem elsewhere in the admin, just there. What does this page do ...
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Is there is a module like, “dbcm”?
Is there is a module like dbcm in Drupal 7?
I want to know changes happen in database, so I can update my production sites with all configuration changes: new block, new views, new (CCK) fields.
I ...
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How can I create a Feature and have it saved under 'features manage' tab?
I see that I can create a Feature, but the only option is to download it. Is there a way I can just have Drupal import it to the manage tab of Features?
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New Relic performance monitoring and the Features Module
We've just started using New Relic to monitor our D6 sites, and are also taking advantage of New Relic's ability to report on Drupal module performance.
Our sites contain several modules with ...
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What are Drupal Apps?
I've been seeing the use of Apps. What are drupal apps?
Are they just glorified Features with a backend UI? What are the differences between the two on a lower level? The apps project page only ...
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How to feature-ize multiple vocabularies applied to multiple content types?
Each of my content types is being exported into its own feature. I now need to export several vocabularies that are associated with the content.
Some of the vocabularies are applied to multiple ...
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Should Features modules be unit tested?
When you write a module, you write unit tests (or you should - I don't because I am a bad person, but I want to change - honest).
Should modules generated with Features be unit tested where ...
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What does a basic module look like that includes a content type, a couple of fields and a view?
I am looking at turning my Features into proper modules. There is nothing fancy to them other than a content type, a couple of textfields attached and a view. It looks like the features module pretty ...
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Exportable and Fieldable Blocks in Drupal 7
I have a project where I have two competing requirements for blocks.
First, I'd like to have blocks be fieldable. There are blocks on the site that contain static content but should have the block ...
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Programmatically enable Mollom protection for a form
I want to enable Mollom protection for a number of forms in my development environment, and then export that configuration to QA and to Production without touching the Admin interface in QA or ...
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Issues with regions using the Spaces Dashboard module
I have been facing many issues trying to use the Spaces Dashboard module (part of the Spaces module).
I have setup a site with pressflow, OG, Context, Spaces, and Features; I got everything working ...
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How do I run cron more often than every hour
I'd like to run cron every 5 minutes, but the UI doesn't offer any increment of time smaller than an hour. I'm assuming the solution is as simple as
creating a feature module for the setting, and ...
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How can I make a module's configuration exportable by features?
At a high level, what needs to be undertaken to take a module's configuration data and make it exportable by Features?
Whether this is a contrib module that does not yet have Features support or a ...
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How do I change the overridden feature to default
I got "overridden" for two settings. I wanted to know why this is happening, and how to get rid of it in a proper way.
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Revert a Feature Component programmatically
I have a Feature installed using an Installation Profile. But I always have to go and Revert a particular Component so that it's no longer Overridden (so that, for example, the Feature's Blocks ...
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Delete a feature but keep the content created by it
Is it possible to keep the data created by a feature after deleting feature itself?
I created a migration feature that is really just a one off; I would want to delete it without losing the nodes ...
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Is it possible to export arbitrary configurations?
I'm trying to create feature modules for as much as possible, such as
my backup schedule (for the Backup & Migrate module)
my shortcut sets
etc. etc.
and I'm surprised how much can't be ...
