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?