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Taxonomy Machine Name Field Formatter

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This module provides a way to display taxonomy term machine names, labels, and links as separate fields within a taxonomy reference field. This allows for exposing predictable key/value data, which is useful for APIs and front-end consumers.

INTRODUCTION

The Taxonomy Machine Name Field Formatter module provides a field formatter for taxonomy reference fields that outputs term properties in a list of separate fields per term.

Note from the author:

  • It’s another one of those "scratch my own itch" modules.
  • I created this module to get results quickly and because I was unsure about the current maintenance state of the parent Taxonomy Machine Name project.
  • The end goal is to contribute this formatter back and merge it into the parent module, if the maintainers are interested in adopting and maintaining this code.

Primary use cases:

  • Expose raw string-based values to front-end consumers or APIs as predictable key/value data.

REQUIREMENTS

INSTALLATION

Install as you would normally install a contributed Drupal module.
See: https://www.drupal.org/node/895232 for further information.

CONFIGURATION

  • Add or edit an entity display that includes a taxonomy term reference field.
  • Choose the Machine name with Label output
  • Configure options:
    • Link label to the referenced entity
    • Link and label as seperated items
  • Save the display settings.

The option Link and label as seperated items is only available if you turned Link label to the referenced entity on.

Output

The variables per term passed to the template are a combination of the following fields

Array
(
    [machine_name] => Array
        (
            [#type] => inline_template
            [#template] => {{ value }}
            [#context] => Array
                (
                    [value] => some_term
                )
        )

    [link] => Array
        (
            [#type] => inline_template
            [#template] => {{ value }}
            [#context] => Array
                (
                    [value] => /taxonomy/term/2
                )
        )
    [label] => Array
        (
            [#type] => inline_template
            [#template] => {{ value }}
            [#context] => Array
                (
                    [value] => Some Term
                )
        )
    [label] => Array
        (
            [#type] => link
            [#title] => Some term
            [#url] => {\Drupal\Core\Url}
            [#options] => Array 
                (
                    [entity_type] => taxonomy_term
                    [entity] => {\Drupal\Core\Entity\Term}
                    [language] => {\Drupal\Core\Language\Language}
                )
        )        
)

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3
Tracked since
Nov 2025
Latest release
4 weeks ago
Releases (12 mo)
3 ▲ from 0
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Release Timeline

Releases

Version Type Core PHP Release date
1.0.0-beta2 Pre-release 10–11 Sep 17, 2026
1.0.0-beta1 Pre-release 10–11 Aug 25, 2026
1.0.x-dev Dev 10–11 Nov 13, 2025