Convert entity type checkboxes to multiselect on field settings page
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<p>It will help us create a more sane schema file.<br>
Currently in head </p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'settings' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'excluded_entity_type_ids' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'comment' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'comment'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'contact_message' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'contact_message'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'block_content' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'block_content'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'menu_link_content' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'menu_link_content'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'shortcut' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'shortcut'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'node' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'file' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'taxonomy_term' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'excluded_bundle_ids' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'target_type' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'node'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>As you can see some values are string and some values are FALSE.<br>
We don't have to store keys which are set to FALSE.<br>
After the patch</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #DD0000">'settings' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'excluded_entity_type_ids' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'comment' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'comment'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'contact_message' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'contact_message'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'block_content' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'block_content'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'menu_link_content' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'menu_link_content'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'shortcut' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'shortcut'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'excluded_bundle_ids' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> <br> array (<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'target_type' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'node'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>and this will become the correct schema </p>
<pre> excluded_entity_type_ids:<br> type: sequence<br> label: 'Entity types to exclude'<br> sequence:<br> - type: string</pre>
>>> [!note] Pre-migration files
- [der-multi-select.patch](https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/der-multi-select.patch)
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