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Unable to install ... already exist in active configuration
With Drush, you can run drush config-delete module_name.settings to delete the configuration causing the error.
When not sure about what to delete, you can drush config-get | grep your-keywords to ...
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How can I use the UUID API?
To generate uuid with drush:
drush php-eval "echo \Drupal::service('uuid')->generate();"
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Unable to install ... already exist in active configuration
For a Pantheon site, I used the following Drush commands.
On the Pantheon site, drush @pantheon.SITENAME.ENVNAME config-delete ERRORNAME
On the local site, drush config-delete ERRORNAME
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Unable to install ... already exist in active configuration
Use the Easy Install module to purge the active configuration without using the Devel module or Drush. It works even if you have missed out the optional folder and the enforced option in the module's ...
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How to transfer a panel variant from one site to another?
Yes, Panels and panel variants can be exported using the Features module. If you are using the panel variant as a part of page manager the option to export variant is shown in the features UI under ...
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How to transfer a block from one site to another?
You can try Block Export Import module, It will help you to import block to remote site.
This module allows users to export all system specific blocks (are
those blocks which are created using ...
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How to transfer a block from one site to another?
Have a look at the Bean module. Here is a quote about its project page:
Think of a Bean as a method to provide new types (compared to node this would be a content type) which then provides an add ...
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Should I enable a feature I created on the same site?
Sure, you enable it. By that you keep track of changes you make on either development environment.
For example you edit some settings on your local dev site, then the activated feature will recognise ...
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Downloading a Feature
You can use my very favorite drush command:
drush fu your_feature
This is the same as using "recreate" in the UI except that it will update your feature directly where it resides in your code base (...
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Ignore UUIDs when comparing the difference between configuration exports
For that interim step, when you just need to glance over the changes in your exported config, git diff -I"^uuid: " -- config/sync will return a succinct list that ignores the changes in any ...
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How do I import using features?
You just need to copy this folder generated by Features into your /sites/all/modules/features directory. A feature is a module, you'll need to enable this feature on your new site to retrieve all the ...
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Difference between strongarm, field base, and field instance
A Drupal 7 database contains various structural configuration. Some of these are:
Entity bundles, e.g. node types or taxonomy vocabularies.
Field bases: These are definitions of fields that apply ...
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How to auto-yes "drush features-revert-all" ... via terminus
You need to add a -- separator to your command. The options for Terminus come before this marker, and the options for Drush come after.
In other words:
terminus -y drush site.dev -- features-revert-...
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Possible to use drush to list overrides for all features?
Just to share or whatever -- I use it all the time, and I would've loved to come across this tip when I was a noob , so...
I run:
drush fl | grep -E "Overridden|Needs"
...And, I added an alias to ...
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Does turning off features modules affect what the features modules does?
FWIW I've successfully uninstalled modules required by a feature before, but I had to remove the dependency from the feature's info file first and then disabled and removed the module. I've seen ...
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Features and CMI Together
In my opinion Features isn't really useful for just one site. It is useful for extracting and packaging functionality to use on multiple sites. Using both at the same time is probably counter ...
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Taxonomy Terms List and Features
You must have Features, UUID and UUID Features modules enabled. In the uuid_features configuration, admin/structure/features/uuid_features, select " Auto detect uuid terms. When exporting a vocabulary,...
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What do I do after I merge feature files with a remote server?
You will have to revert the feature, So that the configurations in the remote server would be same as that in the code. Feature overridden means, the config in the Code and that in the server is not ...
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How to export paragraph bundles with features?
Paragraphs in D8 are entity types. So to create a feature with a paragraph bundle definition, you will need at least:
The paragraph type definition
The Entity form display
The Entity view display
...
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Features along with configuration synchronization
Can I just use features to create new article module through features
ui and use it?
Except for some very trivial use cases: No.
But Features still is a good starting point and a big time saver.
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Listing variable values using drush
If you do
drush vget theme_THEMENAME_settings
it will give you all nested variables but nested variables don't work
drush vget theme_THEMENAME_settings.toggle_name
drush vget ...
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Is there a downside of having too many features?
I'll jump in with an answer, though I agree with others that there is probably no single correct way.
My experience with features is that large features become very difficult to manage. Even one-...
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In the Features module, what does "Recreate" do?
Recreate allows you to re download the feature, including any changes made to config along with the option to add new config.
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Exported feature with roles not imported when loading module
You need to un-exclude user permissions first.
Go to /admin/config/development/features > Select your bundle > (Tab) Configure Bundles > Alter (Configure) > Uncheck "Strip out user ...
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Exported feature with roles not imported when loading module
This is only a workaround. If leymannx or someone else come up with a better solution I'll mark it as the answer, but in the meantime I thought I'd provide my hack-around to get this working:
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How can I merge a content type's fields and settings from dev to staging?
To fix the issue include config in optional directory instead of install directory in your features module. It will then only install the config which are not present in the new site. Which will solve ...
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How do I resolve a merge conflict with features?
Check the panes with the following uuid "bf806592-c85c-4155-a97c-516f72427e4e"
and "992af322-74c5-4a5c-a261-1e73677d3645".
Check which one should not be there and remove it from the code.
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Any risks associated with habitually updating/reverting ALL features in drush?
Personally, I do "revert-all" all the time (to test / roll out changes on Test and Production).
Because no feature update should be overlooked before / during release.
Personally, I would find "...
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Any risks associated with habitually updating/reverting ALL features in drush?
In my opinion, first and foremost thing which should be taken into consideration is that your feature should not have any changes different from your development environment.
secondly, make sure that ...
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How programmatically create custom field type with some base fields?
What you want to do is create a field type with multiple properties. This is indeed more efficient than a field collection, because a property only needs one more column in the field table, while a ...
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