Beginning Drupal 8

Customizing Your Content Type
Chapter 5 ■ Content Types
At this point we could create a new content item using our Event content type. However, the Event content
type only has two fields, an Event Title and a Body. Our requirements call for an event description, start
date, end date, venue/address, type of seating, assistance available at the venue, type of event and the ability
to provide a file that can be downloaded by the site visitor (e.g., a program). As you can see in Figure 5-8,
Drupal automatically creates a Body field, which we will use for the event description.
Figure 5-8. Changing the Label field
We’ll start with changing the Body field by modifying the label that appears on the screen from
“Body” to “Event description,” a better indicator of the type of text to be entered for the person creating the
event. Click the Edit button for the Body field. In the Label field, change “Body” to “Event description”
(see Figure 5-8), and then click the “Save settings” button at the bottom of the form.
After saving the update to the body label, Drupal returns you to the “Manage fields” page with the
updated Label, as shown in Figure 5-9.
Figure 5-9. Revised field label
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