The field system is what makes creating content in Drupal so robust. With Drupal 8, some of the most used contributed field types have been merged into Drupal core as their own module. In fact, Entity Reference is no longer a module but part of the main Field API now.
This recipe is actually a collection of mini-recipes to highlight the new fields provided by Drupal 8 core: Link
, Email
, Telephone
, Date
, and Entity reference.
The standard installation profile does not enable all of the modules that provide these field types by default. For this recipe, you will need to manually enable select modules so that you can create the field. The module that provides the field type and its installation status in the standard profile will be highlighted.
Each recipe will start off expecting that you have enabled the module, if needed, and that you are at the Manage fields
form of a content type and have clicked on Add field
and provided a field label...