Description of the need
Sometimes you want to force content-editors to provide a summary. Use case would include
- You're showing it in a teaser display mode
- You're using it for the metatag description
- You're using it for search results
The summary input is easy to miss, but is really useful as it avoids needing a second text field for teaser text.
Proposed solution
Implemented for D9^ https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1704864 .
Setup options for the "Text area with a summary" widget to allow for the Summary field to be "Shown by default" (instead of collapsed with js) and a field level setting to make the summary value "Required".
Alternatives
This contrib module seems to provide some of these options https://backdropcms.org/project/text_summary_options
Recent comments
Perhaps, these latest lines of random test failures can be considered in the meeting too?
December 18th, 2025 - Weekly Meetings
There are some test failures in the user module after merging in the latest commits. Randomly, only in one PHP version - and always a different one. See also this Zulip...
December 18th, 2025 - Weekly Meetings
Two issues would benefit from testing and code reviews; they've been around for a while and no takers. It would be a shame for these to miss the next releases. View Table Headings...
December 18th, 2025 - Weekly Meetings