Using Display Suite in Drupal 8: How to Use Display Suite Fields

By Ivan Zugec from https://www.webwash.net Read full tutorial at https://www.webwash.net/using-display-suite-drupal-8-how-to-use-display-suite-fields/ Jump to the following sections: - Where to create and manage Display Suite fields (00:47) - How to create a block field (01:36) - How to create a token field (04:12) - View available tokens (05:51) - How to create a "copy of a Display Suite field" (08:57) In the previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awFIQOMNKE), you learnt how to customize content pages by using a Display Suite layout. Today, I want to show you how to use Display Suite fields. Display Suite fields shouldn’t be confused with the standard field system. The best way to think of a field in Display Suite is as a fancy formatter. The field will only render content. You can’t use it to store values or define a widget like you can with the standard field system. You’ve already seen these fields in action. If you select a layout you’ll notice a bunch of new fields appear. These are Display Suite fields which are implemented by the module. A field can be created in two ways: in code or through the Display Suite user interface (UI). Today we’ll look at how to create fields using the Display Suite UI. In a future tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement a field in code.