Craft 4.4+: Enable tag-like UI for entries field

[tomkiss]

I've been playing around with the upcoming changes in 4.4. Really enjoying the new categories/globals/tags entrify tools, it works great and makes converting things super easy.

With a content-heavy site, the CP's entries listing contains a load more stuff now, and thankfully this can be tidied up using headings and rearranging the sections neatly.

The only downside to entry-fying content at this point is that I've found the editor experience for tag-like content to be poorer. That is, custom field types that were previously tags are now an entry field and the UX of using the entries field is very different to that of the tags field.

The process for quickly adding lots of associated entries now involves a modal, waiting for content to load within that (this can be slower on larger sites), plus its easiest to use with a mouse.
It's much less slick than the Tags Field, which is good at quick entry using the keyboard only.

My Feature Request is pretty straightforward: Add a "UI Mode" config option to the Entries Field type, that switches the UI to that of the former Tags field. It could be called "Quick search" or something similar.

This would allow the editor experience to basically remain the same as that of tags, which - imo was pretty good.

[brandonkelly]

Sorta similar to #11379. I was hoping to get that in for 4.4 but hit a snag, so may need to wait until 5.0.

[wmdhosting]

any chance to add this one on 5.3