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Configuring

You need display_builder_ui.

Permissions:

  • "Administer display builder"

List of Display builder profiles

/admin/structure/display-builder

Display builder profiles

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:

Islands region

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 View panels:

Islands configuration

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

Access & permissions

Each Display builder profile is associated to a permission:

Permissions

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

Configuration selector