Hat tip to Talking Drupal for clueing me in to the Custom Field module right at the time I was exploring rolling my own custom entities to solve a longstanding client issue: feeds imports containing paragraph fields.
The problem:
Updating a 4000ish node data set with a few dozen fields—only four of which were paragraphs—via xml feeds import would take around 27 hours to complete. Deleting and reimporting from scratch "only" took about an hour, with the obvious disruptions and caveats.
Enter Custom Field:
I just updated 1900 datasets on staging in 10 minutes without any manual intervention.
Nuking the paragraphs in our datasets has been the single greatest quality of life change for me as the SysAdmin on <this project>.
In this session, I will give an overview of the Custom Field module, including configuration and theming examples, and why you should start nuking your paragraph fields.
