Add "copy to clipboard" button inside field tooltips

[gmclelland]

Hey @rolandtoth,

What do you think about adding a "Copy" button to copy the field name in the field's tooltip?

The "Copy" button would copy the field name to clipboard for quick and easy pasting into templates.

Maybe you could use something like https://clipboardjs.com/ to help with the javascript.

Here is how Github does it https://github.com/blog/1365-a-more-transparent-clipboard-button.

There may be even more use cases that could use a copy button, but that is the first to come to mind. Maybe to also copy template names, roles, or permissions?

[rolandtoth]

I've thought about using clipboardjs or similar but for longer texts. The names you list to copy are usually not that long that it would deserve a copy button imo, but I'm open to this if there's a good reason.

[gmclelland]

It's not that the names are long, but it is just faster to click a copy button than having to put your cursor in the right spot and click and drag to highlight the text.

[rolandtoth]

Maybe it's just me but it's easier to me to write these texts by hand instead of copying.

[gmclelland]

No worries, if you don't want to include it. Just now as we speak I couldn't figure out why my template wasn't outputting any data even though the selector looked right.

Turns out I was using the template_name instead of template-name in my selector. Maybe that could have been prevented with a copy button? 😄

[rolandtoth]

I'm not against it but would like to have a more general solution plus a UI that doesn't get into the way. My idea is that instead of the tooltip the field label could be clicked and a menu would appear, including a few menu items, eg. edit field, copy field name, etc. I'll wait for the new admin theme with any changes though.

[gmclelland]

That sounds good as well.