Problem/Motivation

In #2938358: Hide Token Field when the value data is empty a check was made to handle an empty value being returned from the token field.

It would be useful if this could be extended so that we can handle situations where the value is not empty - but no tokens were replaced.

Steps to reproduce

  • Add an address field to a content type.
  • Add a token field with [node:field_address:organization], [node:field_address:address_line1], [node:field_address:locality] [node:field_address:postal_code], [node:field_address:country_name]

When the field_address is not populated the token field would be rendered as:

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Proposed resolution

  • Add additional configuration option to token fields to hide when replaced text is the same as the original value
  • If this is selected render the token with clear = FALSE to compare to the original value

Remaining tasks

Agree on approach
Confirm wording
Implement

User interface changes

Additional configuration option for token fields

API changes

n/a

Data model changes

Additional configuration for token fields

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ericgsmith created an issue. See original summary.

ericgsmith opened merge request !36

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ericgsmith commented

Added a quick proof of concept to show the idea on 8.x-3.x branch - but I see the 5.x branch is quite different for the token field form - haven't investigated the 5.x branch since we are still on the 3.x branch for the project we need this for.

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swentel commented
Version: 5.0.x-dev » 8.x-3.x-dev

You can completely ignore the 5.0.x branch, everything still happens on 8.x-3.x :)

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ericgsmith commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Thanks @swentel - I should have read the module page first!

I have tidied up the MR and added tests to demonstrate what I am hoping to achieve here.

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swentel commented

Sorry for the delay, but patch looks fine, and with tests, always good!

However, I wonder, without testing myself though, whether we could change the existing logic: instead of calling replace with 'clear' => TRUE the first time, use FALSE there and then add the logic checking whether it's empty or having the same content. That way, the replace call only happens once. If, and only if, that works, we don't even need the 'hide_if_no_tokens_replaced' option at all.

Also, looking at the follow up comments in #2938358: Hide Token Field when the value data is empty - it looks like adding a trim($value) would be useful too to be really sure.

Thoughts?