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<pre wrap="">Again, this comes down to some fundamental "designs" of Drupal. I feel it is
wrong to enforce a title, because we want a unique identifier! Obviously a
list with "nothings" (a list of nodes w/o that identifier) is horrible.
But unfortunately too many people then automatically conclude "then titles are
required"!
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FWIW, in several recent sites I've ended up commenting out node title
display because it ended up being redundant for most of the content. <br>
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The most clear example I can think of is a "Customer Feedback" sidebar
generated via CCK. I needed only the testimonial field and the
customer's name - no titles, ever. By commenting it out inthe display
I kept the 'Title' fr the admin section, but it was a little clunky. <br>
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Is it possible to make $ode->title optional to users, and anywhere
it is left blank (only admin areas) it is referred to by <i>content-type
$node->vid</i> so in my above example it would be "Customer
Feedback 16", but in all non-admin areas it was just templated with
an if statement? Or is his adding complexity that isn't necessary -
not like cmmenting the display out was all that hard, after-all. <br>
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--Sam<br>
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