Can't uncheck "Require summary" and "Summary input" in the body field after I created & deleted some pages

Created on 19 January 2025, 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Sorry if this has been discussed before, I used the search engine and I couldn't find any related issue.

I started a fresh new D11 instance (11.0.10) and I wanted to use the "Basic Page" Content Type to create some intro pages, then I went to "Body field" settings (/admin/structure/types/manage/page/fields/node.page.body) and I initially checked the "Require summary" option because I intended to use this summary as feeder for SEO options (metatags), so I set the field as required:

I didn't put any default value in the Summary.

After that I created some basic pages:

But then my client decided that the summary field wasn't needed, and we could just use the metatag fields from the Metatag module to fill that info, so I went back to the "Body field" settings to uncheck the "Require summary" and "and Summary input" options, but is forcing me to put a default text instead (even if some content was already created):

I even deleted the pages and tried again to unset these checkboxes, but I couldn't unless I put a default content in the summary:

After I added the test default content and saved, I was able to uncheck the boxes (and then deleting the dummy content)

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Proposed resolution

I am not an UX expert, and perhaps this is just an user error, but wouldn't be better to just mark the "summary" text box as "not required" once I uncheck the "Require summary" checkbox? Will this break the data integrity or something like that?

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Status

Active

Version

11.1 ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Component

file system

Created by

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆCanada danrod Ottawa

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