Configuring

You need display_builder_ui.

Permissions:

• "Administer display builder"

List of Display builder profiles

/admin/structure/display-builder

Configuration of a single Display builder profile (config entity)

Each Display builder profile is a configuration entity with:

• Metadata: a label and a description
• The islands configuration, by type

There are 5 type of islands:

• View panels: They are displayed tabbed in the center of the toolbar, or as buttons in the start of the toolbar
• Buttons: they a re displayed as buttons in the end of the toolbar
• Library panels: They are displayed tabbed into the Library View panel
• Menu items: they are displayed in the contextual menu triggered with right-click
• Contextual panels: They are displayed tabbed into the contextual sidebar

Visual positioning:

Each island can be:

• enabled or not
• ordered relatively to the other ones of a same type
• configured one by one

For example, here is the configuration of Toolbar buttons, where some are configurable:

Configuration happens in a modal:

View panels have an extra feature, they can be moved between 2 different regions:

• tabbed in the center of the toolbar
• or as buttons in the start of the toolbar

🚧 2025-11-05: This mechanism may be made generic. See #3555920

Access & permissions

Each Display builder profile is associated to a permission:

This is conditioning the builders available in the selector for a specific user: