Features - Custom User Fields Not Available after Import

Question

I have two Drupal sites.

On Site1, I created 4 custom text fields for the User Profile. I created a Feature that included these fields. I didn't see an area where I could export the settings for Custom User fields, so I searched for their respective machine names and added them.

On site #2, I added the feature and the fields now appear to be imported.

Despite this, when going to Configuration > People > Account settings, going to "Add existing field" does not list the newly imported fields to that list. They also are not available as "Existing Fields" when modifying a Content Type.

On top of that, when attempting to create a field with the same machine name, it states that it is already taken.

It seems the Features has indeed imported the desired fields but they are for some reason inaccessible.

How can this be fixed?

Answer 1

Solution

You have to add the corresponding field instances in feature as well. The field instance name should be in this format:

[entity_type]-[bundle]-[field_name]

In your case, they should be:

• user-user-field_first_name
• user-user-field_last_name
• user-user-field_title
• user-user-field_email

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Sub Question 1

Despite this, when going to Configuration > People > Account settings, going to "Add existing field" does not list the newly imported fields to that list. They also are not available as "Existing Fields" when modifying a Content Type.

Answer

You cannot find existing fields because there is no field instance attached on the field base. Drupal won't be able to load those field base without field instance.

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Sub Question 2

On top of that, when attempting to create a field with the same machine name, it states that it is already taken.

Answer

The field base is stored in database and also the table is created. So Drupal will stop you from recreation.