Exporting/Importing Fields

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Is there an easy way for Importing/Exporting Fields?

I'm just working on a selection of Global fields that I'd like to be able to add for each client site. These would be things like Contact Details, Social Links, etc.

EDIT: I created FieldManager for this!

Would absolutely love to see this added as well. Seems like a very valuable feature to save us all a great deal of time. — sarahshuda, Mar 15 '15 at 20:51
As Brad says, its on their radar. Still, could be worthwhile to submit it as a feature request. — Mats Mikkel Rummelhoff, Mar 15 '15 at 20:54

Bob Olde Hampsink · Answer 1 · 2015-11-07T14:11:53.847

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I always write migrations to do this.

Here's and example for changing the label of a field.

You could, of course, do whatever you want - modify fieldlayouts, add/modify/remove fields, etc.

UPDATE

Nowadays I use the Schematic Plugin to transfer all kinds of settings (fields, fieldlayouts, settings etc.) over different setups.

edited Nov 07 '15 at 14:11

answered Sep 04 '15 at 08:37

Bob Olde Hampsink

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Do you have an option for Windows users? Schematic seems to only work on linux. – Tibor Szasz May 26 '16 at 13:28
Not at the moment, no. But if you can create an issue for it we will have a look. – Bob Olde Hampsink May 26 '16 at 13:29
False alarm, sorry :) It worked. – Tibor Szasz May 26 '16 at 13:38

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 21:03

Check out https://github.com/engram-design/FieldManager

I was looking for a way to duplicate a matrix field to make another variant. This works perfectly for cloning fields and seems to have Export/Import options with a good UI for selecting which field you want to export.

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '14 at 17:06

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Currently, there isn't a native way to do this.

But it's been discussed many times before and it's still on our radar.

answered Aug 06 '14 at 17:06

Brad Bell

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Hi Brad, any updates on this feature? – Christian P Mar 06 '15 at 15:11
Unfortunately, no. – Brad Bell Mar 06 '15 at 16:02
Is this still on the radar? is there an official request for this as I couldn't find one.... (I'm sure it must be there!) – j00lz Aug 22 '15 at 11:04
@BradBell I would appreciate an update on this topic! – Malte May 22 '20 at 19:31

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