John Ennew

The Deeson Online developers get involved in Drupal 8 core development, including action photos!

When a site developer exports a feature to code, all the values stored against that feature on the site they export from are saved into code. It may be necessary to customise one or two of those variables for a particular environment later. If the export uses ctools then there is a hook that can alter an exportable as it's being imported.

You might find it desirable to place views template files into a module rather than the site theme. If the module is a feature which contains a view and is something that you might want to use on another site, then it makes sense to group the view and it's templates in the same module. The following article describes how to tell views that your module contains views template files and how to tell features that you want to tell views that the module contains views template files.

When you want even more control over an outputted field than display suite expert mode allows, you can put a theme function in template.php file. This article describes a neat design pattern for developers to use to experiment with a gives an example of how you might use it.