Questions tagged [feature-request]
For proposals of new features on the site, or requests for a change to an existing feature, this is the tag to use.
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Can we add drupal.org username as a profile field?
This would enable a simple 1:1 mapping of Drupal.org accounts and Drupal Answers accounts, allowing for some cool integration projects down the road.
For example it would allow Certifed to Rock to ...
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Allow "drupal-N" tags to be migrated from other sites
When a question is migrated from other sites, any tag that matches ^drupal-?\d+.*$ is removed. The problem is that Stack Overflow uses drupal-6, and drupal-7; as users on Stack Overflow are used to ...
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Markdown for Drupal reference
It would be very helpful to have specific Markdown for creating links directly to the Drupal Reference http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal, especially when you are asking/answering a question that ...
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better tools for dealing with questions that disclose security issues
The Drupal project encourages security researchers to follow responsible disclosure and this usually works. Sometimes, though, people will post a security issue to the support forum or the public ...
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Please exclude version tags from title bar
I mean questions like this - there is nothing wrong with it being tagged 7, but this isn't great:
The same will appear in Google results etc. I believe commerce would be more relevant for this ...
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Automatically link function names to api.drupal.org
Is it possible to automatically turn core function names into links to api.drupal.org? For instance: 'hook_node_load' would become 'hook_node_load'.
If it's possible at all, would you consider it ...
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Please introduce review audits on Drupal Answers
As we can see for example here some people happen to post votes based on the username of last editor, not on the content of the post. That should not happen.
Please introduce review audits on Drupal ...
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Giving a good answer that is not being accepted or at least upvoted
Have you ever given an answer that it is and can be proven as correct but has never been accepted or upvoted? It is so frustrating!
I am not a child and I am not whimpering, I know the rules, most ...
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Add "Bugs must be reported on drupal.org" as close reason
When there are issues like Metatag images don't work anymore after updating to Drupal 8.6 I tend to close-vote them and giving off-topic because ... > Questions asking to recommend or find a book, ...
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spam attack...is there anything else that the community can do to help the moderators?
I feel that recently we are fighting more with the spammers. But is flagging enough to help the moderators? any other measure we can do? I don't know something like when you flag and it is trusted ...
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Add other StackExchange network sites to off-topic close reason
I'm not sure if this maybe should be added to Custom off-Topic reasons for Drupal Anwers instead, but I figured it's a question in it's own right.
As it stands, we can only cast close votes to move a ...
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Set the default highlighting mode to "lang-php"
There are some questions for which the syntax highlighting is not active because none of the tags used for the question have syntax highlighting enabled.
Difficulties with the #ajax form item ...
apadernoMod
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Improve the usability of the suggested edits review page
I know I should pay more attention and not do these things when I'm tired but I would say that the review page for suggested edits is not user friendly.
The topic of the edit could really be more ...
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Expand the content of the "How to Ask" block
The content of the How to Ask block that is currently shown is the following one:
Is your question about the Drupal CMS?
We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.
Remember to ...
apadernoMod
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Re-create the "message" tag (or create a "message-stack" tag)
Modules with a dedicated tag
Tags such as views, rules, userpoints, features, quiz, webform, panels, feeds, ... etc are all tags named according to the Drupal module they are about. One could say "...
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Drupal version Tag in Related Sections
In Questions that may already have your answer, and Related sections, if question is tagged with drupal version I think it would be nice to see version tag next to a question.
Related questions are ...
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Burninate "Custom" tag
There already was a request to Burninate the "custom-module" tag and now I see it's rebirth as custom.
custom-module doesn't have any meaning because:
A question tagged custom-module would ...
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Can we get a better visited color on MDA?
In the theme on Meta Drupal Answers, the color on an anchor is
a { color: #a69635 }
The visited state is
a:visited { color: #6c5f16 }
In body copy inside questions / answers, the color is
body { ...
mpdonadioMod
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A marker for when I've flagged a post as spam
Spam comes in waves, and it is difficult to keep track of what I've flagged and what's new (and unflagged). It would be nice with a little marker telling me what I've already flagged. The marker ...
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Ability to change the type of flag? Or have an unflag option?
I come across questions, when sometimes I find the need for flagging it. But, sometimes in confusion / or due to error I flag it wrongly.
And when I again try to flag, it says, you've already flagged ...
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How can I see the questions and answers I've voted on?
Often I'll find that I need to find a question I'd recently looked at and voted on, but can't quite remember the title. Since I voted on it, and I can't vote twice, I know there's a record of which ...
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Can we have porn link prevention implemented here?
Mechanism is ready: Help users create dummy links that are not to unrelated commercial sites has status-completed. Could it be implemented here on Drupal Answers too?
I just encountered a question ...
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What information should be put in the "How to Ask" block at questions/ask?
During the discussion at Numeric version tags considered ... OK, the idea came up to put some more hints into the How to ask block on the right side of the ask question form.
The current text is (...
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Can we ban the D8 tag?
I have edited all the D8 tagged questions to be tagged 8 instead. Can we disallow D8 somehow? I am not a moderator yet and I can't find a tool to report a tag to moderators either.
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Add Stack Overflow as migration path
The voting-to-close dialog actually allows to only migrate a question on the meta site for Drupal Answers. It should allow to vote to migrate a question to Stack Overflow, for those questions that are ...
apadernoMod
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Deleting a question while someone is in the middle of answering it?
Mild annoyance here, but does a user get prompted that someone is in the process of answering a question before they voluntarily delete it?
I was just in the middle of answering a decent question ...
mpdonadioMod
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Differences between "updates," "upgrade," and "version-upgrade"
The upgrade documentation at https://drupal.org/upgrade states that an upgrade consists of changing the major version while an update is changing the minor version of Drupal.
Excerpt:
What's the ...
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Create a synonym for the "d6" tag
It seems that d6 is back.
There are currently 7 questions tagged with it. Can we make it a synonym of 6?
The older question is What should be done with tags similar to "d6," "d7"?
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Please introduce anti-spam restrictions
Due to large amount of SPAM these days (see Lots of question related to weight lose, fatty tissue etc in daily. Is it added intentionally?) I propose to introduce following restrictions for ...
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Seeing own question and answer bans
Unfortunately, I've received a ban on Drupal Answers, but I cannot remember which ban is in effect. Of course, I could ask and/or answer a question, and find out quickly enough, but I think a page ...
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Is there a way I can read comments to me from deleted posts?
Someone (I can't tell who) left a comment for me on a spam posts about do's/don't's of spam question reporting. Unfortunately I have no idea what it said except for the first few words because the ...
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Would a way to flag questions as "needs more information" be useful?
There are many questions where users post an initial, incomplete question, which can not be answered without more information. For example, they post a question about a error/issue with their code/...
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Improved guidance when a question is closed as duplicate
The text that appears (presumably automatically) when a question is closed as a duplicate is the following:
"This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not ...
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Don't allow unregistered users to post answers
I counted at least 33 spam posts posted in the past 12 hours; all of them were created from unregistered users. Maybe unregistered users should not be able to create posts, in the same way they are ...
apadernoMod
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Let adding code wrapper in edits ignore the 6 character requirement
Is there a way we can ignore the 6 character requirements if we're only adding a code tag for a question? Sometimes I see people have included code, but they haven't formatted it properly so it doesn'...
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Is there a way to increase someone's bounty?
Let's say I see a question with bounty of 100. I like that question. I want it answered. I'm willing to boost bounty with 50 of my own rep. Is there a way to do this? I guess not, so are there any ...
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Question Templates
I was a little bit more active on DA since a while. And I observed that it seems necessary to flag quite a large percentage of new questions to be closed as "too broad" or "unclear what you're asking"....
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Missing text beside relative time for Migrated questions?
Seems there's a missing text beside the relative time for migrated questions at Top Questions page.
If anyone does any changes to the post it appears like "modified 5 mins ago".
If someone answers to ...
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Suggested improvement for "activity"
If users want to know their rejected edits, they need to go activity >> suggestions and click on "suggested edit" from the list of their suggested edits.
There is no link/tab provided for rejected ...
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Enable code highlight in quotes by default
This network-wide question shows how to enable syntax highlight in code blocks inside quotes, as it's off by default. But here most of the time we want PHP highlight.
My request is: can Drupal ...
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Formatting edits
I rarely edit questions, but I finally tried to improve this one today: How to format Start + End Dates without using PHP
The question had an example, which was not formatted to be displayed ...
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Is there a better way to indent code and highlight code or errors?
Forgive my frustration, please, but, highlighting code with "four spaces for each line" ... is very inefficient.
I had a problem with some code that spit out errors I would like for the community to ...
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How do I put a border around images I upload?
When adding an answer with lots of images (such as this), there is no easy way to distinguish between the text and the image. Please allow to put some border around the image. It will make answers ...
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Create a custom search filter for modules
There is a discussion about drupal.org soon promoting drupal answers and the number of questions could explode.
I think it would be really useful if we could filter questions by modules referenced in ...
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Allow better formatting for comments
when you write a longer comment to someone's question or answer you don't get any formatting options. A simple line break would make the comments a lot more readable.
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Create [mimemail] tag
I am the maintainer of the Mime Mail module and I would like to add a mimemail tag here on Drupal Answers in order to better support this module. There are years of questions about Mime Mail here on ...
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Edit in grace period should allow un-downvote, too
This question: open pop up window on map marker from outside map canvas after click an anchor tag in drupal 7 using gmap, location was pretty bad when I downvoted it. A bit more than a single line. It ...
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Notification for favourite questions
I like the feature of adding questions to your favourites, but I'd love to get a notification in my inbox when new answers were given to them or when the question has been updated. Is this a feature I'...
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Getting notification when an answer is updated
Is it normal that I don't get a notification in my inbox when someone updated his/her answer (that means an edit has been made) on one of my questions? If yes, wouldn't this be a nice feature? I'd ...
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Please change background colour for code in quote
Currently both quote have background colour #F4F4F4 and code block #F3F3F3. On my monitor they are indistinguishable.
Making code background darker is bad for readability, so please make code block ...
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