Questions tagged [configuration-management]
Managing configurations across environments is part of the configuration management.
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How to prevent Devel module to be installed on production environments
Using the new Drupal 8 Configuration manager, how can I prevent it from installing the Devel module on certain environments? As far as I know, installing it on my local means the next time I export ...
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Can I create an “unlimited” values variable?
I'm trying to create an exclude list of sorts that is configurable via the variable admin interface. I have created lots of single value variables, but never a variable as an array where through the ...
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Create config object with array containing key-value pairs
We have a custom module, mymodule, that we want to use to create a config object for so that it can contain an array of key-value pairs. We need to be able to click button Add More on the form that ...
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Understand how files in Drupal module are connected? [closed]
I am aware that this is a question that has no direct answer but I am still very new to Drupal development and I really do hope that someone will take some time and give me and idea on how are Drupal ...
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Is there any “block_user” module?
After moving my sites to the new server, and some updates in the mean time. I have found one of the sites displaying the
"The following module is missing from the file system: block_user bootstrap....
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How to access variables in a fieldset with variable_get
function bi_mx_enhancement_form($form, &$form_state) {
$form['bi_mx_enhancement_government_ws'] = [
'#type' => 'fieldset',
'#title' => t('Government Web Service Settings')...
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Configuration translate Form Access Denied
This questions has repeat several times, but I face similar issues. Here are configuration yml information
webform_protected_downloads.configsettings.yml
token_text: 'test'
langcode: en
...
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Overriding permissions selectively via settings.php/settings.local.php
The use case is a development module that you would only have installed on a local environment.
My thought was to use $config in settings.php to do this:
$config['user.role.anonymous']['permissions']...
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how do I import a specific configuration file? [duplicate]
Is it possible to import a specific configuration file, in Drupal 8, instead of importing the full configuration?
If it is possible, how can I achieve it?
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How do you add a field to a node type form?
I would like to add a boolean field to all node type forms and save it's value in config.
I found this tutorial, but the code formatting is really bad.
http://www.jaypan.com/tutorial/drupal-8-...
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TypeError on “drush config-export”
I've been receiving the following error message when trying to do a drush config-export command.
However, I am able to successfully do the configuration export from the Drupal admin page (admin/config/...
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Vague error message on config import: Config x depends on x that will not exist after import
I don't understand what is missing. It's just a simple blogpost content type that I created before I reset the db and tried to re-import it. All the modules requires are enabled and I did try to clear ...
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What If I Need Conditional/Overriding (synchronized) .yml Config Install With a Custom Module?
With D8, the appropriate method for adding fields during install with a custom module is with the config system and .yml files in a config/install directory.
I have a module for user theming I like ...
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How to resolve error Unable to install the responsive_tables_filter module since it does not exist
I am getting an error when importing the configuration from our development branch. When running. drush cim staging.
The error is.
The import failed due to the following reasons: Unable to install ...
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drush cim creates and immediately deletes field
Importing the following yml fails. With UUID it wants to be deleted. After removing the UUID it fails with field type doesn't exist. Any ideas? Is there some kind of order that might make the import ...
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Config entity schema to save checkboxes element
I have created a Config Entity, one of the values it stores is the results from a set of checkboxes. This is the element in the form
$form['choices'] = [
'#type' => 'checkboxes',
'#title' =>...
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What is the deal with config collections?
When manipulating configuration yaml files in config/sync, I note that if you put files in subdirectories, and run drush config:import, the files in those subdirectories are denoted as belonging to a '...
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How do I recreate the system.site configuration element?
For some reason system.site, system.performance and system.date config values have been deleted from our site.
I have the original configuration files, but when attempting to import those using ...
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Attempt to create a field body that does not exist on entity type node - Drupal 8.6.7 [duplicate]
I recently started getting this error on enabling any module or going to content type manage field configuration.. This was not an issue before.
It is fairly new site with few content types.
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Attempt to create a field body that does not exist on entity type node
I am getting the following error:
Drupal\Core\Field\FieldException: Attempt to create a field body that
does not exist on entity type node. in
Drupal\field\Entity\FieldConfig->...
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Get out of maintenance mode using database query (without using drush or admin area)
I understand there are very many stackoverflow questions on this very topic.
How can get my site out of maintenance mode? for example.
However I've never seen one that explains how to turn off ...
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Config import constantly showing configs to import
Recently after doing a config import via drush (drush cim sync), the config files don't seem to import properly, as the files are listed after a supposed successful import.
(and doing a cex sync shows ...
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Cannot activate parameter cors.config
I am using the RESTful Web Services that is included in core of Drupal 8.2.7.
I need to activate CORS to be able to call the API from another domain.
I put this configuration in this file: "core/lib/...
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Link field is removing query parameters
We have an Article that a link field, field_link. When we create a new page of type Article, we set the link field to have a URL of www.example.com/somepath?someid=123345 and label of View. When the ...
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Image styles not generated during config import
Situation:
Drupal 8.6.9 running DrupalVM with Ubuntu 16.04, Apache 2.4.18, Php 7.1.26
with default settings except for the location of the drupal site.
I am trying to do a migration of a Drupal 7 ...
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Custom module - views config dependencies
I have created a module which having two submodules.
submodule-1
submodule-2
Within submodule-1 I am defining multiple Views fields and filters based on a custom entity type.
Within submodule-2 I ...
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How do I update the configuration of a module?
I'm building a custom module in Drupal 8. It includes some YAML config files.
As I develop I need to change and add to the config, e.g. to add another field onto my custom entity.
At present the ...
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How to disable modules using config split?
I have created different split for each environement (local, dev, test, prod) using the Configuration Split module. How can manage modules (enable/disable) in each environment?
Should I keep core....
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How can I import the configuration on a different site?
I have this error when I try to import the config of an another site:
The staged configuration cannot be imported, because it originates
from a different site than this site. You can only ...
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Is there a single Drush and or Drupal console command to export and import all configurations?
Normally I goto Config Sync then export all > save config tar.gz > import.
Can this be achieved with one command?
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What are cloned sites in Drupal 8?
When trying to export my site configurations from one Drupal 8 site to other I keep getting the following error
The staged configuration cannot be imported, because it originates
from a different ...
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How do I create a configuration sync folder?
I've inherited a Drupal 8 site but it has no config_HASH folder with it which means that the majority of admin paths throw an exception.
How do I generate a new configuration folder based on the ...
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All instances of block are not getting removed
This question is a continuation of this Block in Drupal 8, The second problem I am facing is that suppose I select block made for comment section and place it under Sidebar second section and ...
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Is it possible to set a role specific value for “allow_insecure_uploads?”
I want to override the value for "allow_insecure_uploads" which is in system.file config, but only for specific roles. Am I going to need to do this in a module / does one already exist?
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Should configuration synchronization be used only between cloned sites?
Can it be used to get configuration from one site to another site which is not a clone.
eg: SiteX is installed using
composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev
SiteX
and ...
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How to check for differences in config
Is there any way to check for differences with config in Drush?
I checked the list of drush 8 config commands and I couldn't find anything.
The reason I need this is that I have a site that runs ...
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Copy installed modules and configuration to new installation
I have a Drupal 8 application with mysql as database. I installed bunch of third part modules such as domain, search_api, pdf etc... Most I installed using composer and a very few using "Install ...
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How do I export and import content types (including fields) between environments?
I've been trying to find a smart way of exporting content type and all its fields from one installation of Drupal to another.
The core "Configuration synchronization" export only export the content ...
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Grant permission to current user at runtime in specific environment
Many Drupal contrib modules have inverse "feature flag" implementations vis-a-vis a killswitch variable added to settings.local.php to disable a feature:
// Killswitch setting.
$settings['...
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Configuration changes that will not import?
I have some configuration that will not import. If I run drush config-import --preview I see the changes to be imported; I hit 'y' to import. When I run the same command, the changes are still there?
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Proper Schema file for integer and select
We have a custom module, mymodule that has an admin form where it stores field of type: number and select. I need to create a mymodule/config/schema/mymodule.schema.yml file, but don't know what to ...
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Change site name programmatically
We have a requirement that when we save a node that nodes title should be the site name. We used to do it in Drupal 7. But I was not able to find the proper method for it in Drupal 8.
This is what we ...
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How to set a multi line value from drush vset
I was trying to add a value to the drupal antibot antibot_form_ids variable.
drush vget antibot_form_ids
returns a string separated by /r/n
Adding just a value to this string isn't just enough.
If ...
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Programmatically set the front page per site?
I have a site that is using a 'fake' multi-site instance (I think, someone else implemented it). We created 3 directories in sites:
sites/site1
sites/site2
sites/site3
and in each settings.php ...
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How to sync configuration between multiple developers' environments
D8 Configuration management is really awesome and easy to use when there's only one developer working on a project. We are running into challenges in keeping configuration synced between environments ...
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Site UUID in source storage does not match the target storage
When I run drush cim -y on my staging instance of my site I get the following error:
Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigImporterException: There were errors
validating the config synchronization. in Drupal\...
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Translation of label in yml configuration file
After having read https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/translation-api/overview
and in particular Translation for shipped configuration and configuration schemas I tried to use this ability to have ...
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Is it possible to update module provided configuration schema in an hook_update_N()?
So I have a custom module with a module.schema file, defining a configuration schema for that module, not talking about database/field schema.
module.settings:
type: config_object
label: 'Settings ...
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Difference between field and field storage in configuration type?
I am exporting a content type and field associated with the synchronize option available in Drupal 8. I exported and imported the YAML code for content type successfully. When I was about to do the ...
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Load the value of an entity field type in another form
I have created a custom field and I wish to load the value dynamically in another form in relation to the specific node entity the value belongs to.
I understand that to get the value I have to use/...
