Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 5 ■ Content Types
The first screen that appears when you click the “Add content type” button is a form that defines the
general characteristics of your new content type (see Figure 5-3). There is a field for the name of the content
type, a field for a description that describes the content type (the description is displayed on the author’s
screen for creating new content), a field for the label of the title field, and several other configuration options
that I will walk you through in detail.
Figure 5-3. Content type creation form
To begin the process, do the following:
• Fill in the name of the content type, which in our case is “Event.” The text below the
Name field provides a set of guidelines that you should follow when creating a name
for a new content type.
• Provide a description of how this content type should be used, such as “A content
type used to capture the details about upcoming events.”
• Change the “Title field label” from just Title to “Event Title,” making it more
descriptive and intuitive to the author who will be using this template for authoring
event information.
• Leave the “Preview before submitting” setting as Optional.
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• Provide a brief explanation of the submission guidelines for this content type. This
is an optional value, and may not apply to your content type. For our Event content
type, we will use “Please fill out all required fields before submitting the event” as the
submission guidelines. You can choose to use or ignore this field when creating new
content types.