How to make labels of fields selectable? [closed]

Question

Does anybody know if there is a module to make labels of fields selectable, for instance Field course:

• Abc in DCT
• 123 today
• listening pop

so if I select 123 today, in my content display I would have:

course: 123 today

but I would like to change course: by workshop: at the visualization of the content and have "course" for the other two (Abc in DCT and listening pop). So maybe there is a module that allows label selection, I haven't find it yet.

Answer 1

You'll have to make a custom field formatter with a settings form where you select the label and then output it accordingly.

Like in this tutorial about field formatters

Answer 2

There are a couple of modules you can try:

• Field Display Label seems pretty simple, but it may be exactly what you need.
• Field Formatter Label looks similar but has less users and no stable release.
• Display Suite can do this as you can see in this tutorial, but it also does a lot more than that so it might be overkill for your use case.

Besides these modules, you can do it in code using custom formatters like Suranga said or implementing theme preprocessors.

Answer 3

What you are describing is actually two fields. One is the "label" (a textfield limited to a select number of otpions, or a taxonomy term), the other is the description.

You can do this a bunch of different ways, depending on your needs:

• Entity References (allows multiple)
• Field Collections (allows multiple)
• Field Groups/Fieldsets (only one)

If I understand correctly, you want to be able to click on the description and the label will automatically show up. To do that, I would predefine the labels and descriptions by creating them in a separate entity. Then, you could select these from a list of descriptions by using the Entity Reference module.