Questions tagged [features]
Use it for questions about the module used by site developers to export elements of a site configuration to use them in another site.
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How can I programmatically configure commerce checkout pane settings?
In Commerce, we have custom pane and checkout configuration that applies to all orders. Per this d.o issue in commerce_features, this is supposedly doable. However, Commerce's default configuration ...
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Git branching strategies with a small team to develop a Drupal site
We're a small team (5-6 developers) building a Drupal 7 site. Previously, we've used Features (https://www.drupal.org/project/features) to export our configurations from development to production. We'...
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How can I merge a content type's fields and settings from dev to staging?
I have an existing content type on staging. On dev we've added a ton of new fields and display and form setting changes, etc.
It's not practical to go through the config files and find all of the many ...
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Exported feature with roles not imported when loading module
TLDR; I'd like to export the permissions I've added to the authenticated role, and have them appear on a different server when installing the custom module. However, when I install the module on a ...
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What does it take to convert a feature?
I am udating an existing website from Drupal 7 to 8. The original developer placed most of the theme/items into Module Features (like a front page slider). I have about 37 Features that I need to move ...
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How can I remove Features modules from a site without affecting functionality?
I have inherited a site that makes heavy use of Features, and this constrains what I can do to permissions and creates dependencies that don't otherwise exist. Something as simple as turning off the ...
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In the Features module, what does "Recreate" do?
What does it mean to "recreate" a feature? How does this affect the database? How does it affect the files, if at all?
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Site crashes when deleting a field
Whenever I delete a field I get WSOD with following error:
Drupal\Core\Field\FieldException: Attempt to create a configurable
field of non-configurable field storage variations. in
Drupal\field\...
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Ignore UUIDs when comparing the difference between configuration exports
When building Features, i find it useful to keep a 'backup' of the full configuration and commit it to version control.
If something breaks when i package a feature after i test how it works by doing ...
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Is it necessary to export features with a version number?
By default, modules generated with features are created with a version string in the *.info file.
I think the convention is to increase this version number when the feature changes.
In a distributed ...
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Drush Feature Update removing t() and l() function usages
I have a feature that currently has things like this:
'body' => '<h3>' . t('Welcome back') . '<span class="fname">%user:field_first_name</span>!</h3>',
However, using ...
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Is there a downside of having too many features?
I have worked on or seen different D7 projects in the past, with different strategies for features:
One feature per view, content type, etc, with a consistent naming pattern. The result is many ...
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Available node language only English
I have a custom content type with "Set custom language as default for new content" and "Require language". Custom default language is Current language.
Entity translation is defined with "Current ...
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Track field dependency with features
I modified a field dependency on my Call content type. Features did not track the change automatically. I cannot figure out how to manually add it to features.
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Features 8.x-3.7 not writable on Window's Ubuntu
8x-3.7 features, most stable version, but I am having trouble writing to custom module on the UI. My structure is as follow:
-modules/
contrib/
features/
custom/
news_blogs/
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can features module provide fields to an entity created by a different module?
A contrib module provides an entity and some default fields in its contribmodulename.install file.
In the UI we have added fields to that entity. It appears like these fields, both $field_bases and $...
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Listing variable values using drush
I would like to list the values of certain variables using Drush in order to make sure they are in fact the variables that I intend to add to my feature. It seems that some variables are parents which ...
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Export node display with Features not taking in account format of fields
I'm trying to export a node display with features and I already created the feature with the display and imported it to another site.
The problem is that the display has some differences, mainly in ...
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After rearranging field order in a view, how do I export this modification in features?
I am using drupal 7, I rearranged the order of the fields in a view, using the contextual menu link 'raerrange' (see image). But now I am not able to export this modification into the feature related ...
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Bundle field validation with Feature in Drupal 8
How can I have the field validation settings (via the field validation module) bundle with the content type using Features module?
eg: I have a content type Post and a field validation that says post'...
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Features along with configuration synchronization
I am planning to use features to bundle some of my specific works. Example: I want to bundle article content types along with its views, fields and related other stuffs. Can I just use features to ...
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What does it mean "Rebuilding" in a feature? Can it be resolved?
I did some changes in my local environment, then I updated the 'feature'.
When I try to deploy the change to another environment, but before I can start the 'revert' operation, some parts of the ...
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Problem with i18n_string + features + sites with different default language
(I will talk about i18nviews in this question, but I think the problem applies equally to other cases of i18n_string)
Background
With regular Drupal t(), Drupal will always assume that the original ...
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How to export paragraph bundles with features?
According to paragraphs documentation, it's should be possible to export paragraph bundles with features module, but whatever I search, I can't find any option in the features component section for ...
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Recommended way to clone functionality to create a site in Drupal 8
I have a Drupal 8 installation with different content types, paragraphs defined, views and taxonomy vocabularies. Ideally I wanted to be able to export some of these features and import them in ...
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Remove Workflow from Features
I'm trying to remove a Workflow instance from a Feature. But every time I uncheck the workflow and recreate the feature, the workflow gets deleted.
Now I know that with Views, Panels and other ...
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Exporting menu along with code
I am new to Drupal 8, been developing only with D7 until now and I have a question regarding menus. I need to create this basic main menu for the page, but I am not sure how to export it and send to ...
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How to prevent users from updating "featurized" settings via the GUI?
We have some configuration pages where it is useful for privileged users to be able to see settings that have been exported as part of a feature, but there is no indication on the admin page that ...
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How to provide default panels pages via features, but allow overrides?
I'm working on a D7 distribution and I'd like to provide panels pages for some things like node views. I can do this with Features. But I also want the end user of the site to be able to modify the ...
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Exporting a feature to a specific directory using drush
I am creating a new feature using drush. I looked up the component I want to create the feature with. When I run the command drush fe my_feature views_view:my_cool_view, drush wants to put it in sites/...
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How to use the Features API to enable a feature?
So I looked at the features API, and in order to enable a feature, they use this code:
function hook_pre_features_enable_feature($component){
};
So I go in and add this:
function ...
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How do I import using features?
I have a drupal site and I exported a Drupal feature and got a download file. Now I want to import that file to another drupal site, but there is no import function, so how do I add it?
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Recreating Feature generates no text-format related code
My D7/Panopoly site has 3 text formats: plain_text, panopoly_html_text and panopoly_wysiwyg_text.
I added Pathologic to the filter list for all text formats; I now need to to capture this to code.
If ...
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How to export a Field's Allowed Value List in a feature?
I've made a drop-down list type Field and have exported it as part of a Feature. However, whilst every other facet of the Field (Name, Help text, etc) is successfully exported the actual Allowed ...
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How to re-order a mini-panel in a Panel generated page?
I've inherited a site and have been slowly unraveling certain aspects of its construction. Specifically right now, I want to change the order/region a page is loading a mini-panel in a page that I ...
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What does "storage" mean in relation to Mini Panels?
I am working on a site that uses Mini Panels. In the Mini Panels List I see a column called "STORAGE". The column contains the values, overridden, default, and normal (which is the storage for a ...
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Difference between strongarm, field base, and field instance
What is the difference between the following options when using features? What is each of them for and an example of why each would be used.
strongarm
field base
field instance
To make things even ...
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How can I programmatically set the default export path?
In Drupal 7, you can set the default export path for the features module by setting the variable 'features_default_export_path':
variable_set('features_default_export_path', 'sites/all/modules/custom/...
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The "X" plugin does not exist
I've exported features in a multisite setup in site A, which I now want to import into site B. Though, I keep getting errors like:
The "entity_embed" plugin does not exist
The "bef" plugin does not ...
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How to "featurize" customizations to Answers module (or a content type that is part of a module)
I'm implementing a discussion feature using the Answers module. I want to create a feature for all the customizations so I can implement and deploy using the git process.
The views and content types ...
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Where are features displayed after they are created?
I just created a feature on one site for copying to another and on the site I created the feature it doesn't appear in the list of features, and I am sure I didn't delete it.
When features are ...
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How can I tell which Feature something belongs to?
I am working on a site that has maybe 100 different Features. I am editing a block, which I assume is attached to a Feature.
Without looking through each Feature individually, how can I tell which ...
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How to auto-yes "drush features-revert-all" ... via terminus
On a local machine
drush features-revert-all
will convert all features to codebase definition.
On a local machine ...
drush -y
will auto-yes any command.
On a local machine
terminus -y command
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Any risks associated with habitually updating/reverting ALL features in drush?
I want to start using drush commands to simply update all or revert all features (depending on which environment I'm in) instead of doing them one by one. What are the risks involved or questions I ...
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Taxonomy Terms List and Features
I noticed that, while I am able to build taxonomy into my feature, it doesn't seem to include the list of terms within the taxonomy. When I go to create a feature, the uuid_term section does list a ...
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Featurize user roles and permissions can't update
I have added user roles and permissions to feature which I use to featurize general site configurations and theme settings.
In the past I believe this worked just fine, however, with my latest push ...
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Feature revert deletes existing Strongarm variable
I got a Drupal 7 feature, which contains certain Strongarm variables, such as admin_theme. This feature has been created, released and reverted multiple times, always without fault. Suddenly, the last ...
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PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S22] When adding quiz content
I am trying to implement the quiz module on a new website and it's throwing the following error when attempting to add content > quiz. I believe the code I have was part of a feature I was trying to ...
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Cannot import Paragraph based Feature into new site
Perhaps someone with a bit more Features expertise can help me here.
I have a Drupal site with 25 or so Paragraph types that I would like to export (one by one) to its own contained Feature.
I ...
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Should I enable a feature I created on the same site?
I created a view and some configurations and used features to save it into code. When doing so, I used the GUI interface and selected Advanced Features and named a file path (sites/all/modules/custom) ...
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