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These are features that you would most like to see included in future releases of Backdrop CMS.  All the issues you see here are issues tagged with the label "type - feature request" from the Backdrop CMS core issue queue. 

# GitHub Issue title Issue # Vote for this feature # of votes
601 Group interdependent checkboxes visually #6013
602 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
603 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
604 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
605 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
606 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
607 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
608 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
609 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
610 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
611 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
612 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
613 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
614 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
615 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
616 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
617 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
618 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
619 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
620 Comment administration improvements #2919
621 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
622 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
623 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
624 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
625 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
626 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
627 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
628 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
629 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
630 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
631 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
632 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
633 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
634 Menu router refactoring #2400
635 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
636 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
637 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
638 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
639 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
640 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
641 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
642 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
643 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
644 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
645 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
646 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
647 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
648 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
649 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
650 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
651 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
652 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
653 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
654 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
655 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
656 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
657 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
658 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
659 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
660 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
661 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
662 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
663 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
664 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
665 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
666 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
667 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
668 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
669 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
670 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
671 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
672 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
673 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
674 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
675 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
676 Cache settings via admin section #1434
677 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
678 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
679 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
680 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
681 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
682 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
683 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
684 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
685 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
686 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
687 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
688 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
689 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
690 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
691 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
692 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
693 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
694 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
695 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
696 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
697 Allow regions titles #2647
698 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
699 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
700 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990

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