How to display summary field on node edit form by default?

This is BY FAR the best workaround! Just edit the field settings, click on the summary button and add a blank space as the default value! Works like a charm :)

Thanks a lot!

Is this Naughty? Or is this okay to do? So will this force just the summary empty field from collapsing or all of them?

If so is there a means to select solely the summary field on. Or just have it forced on by default. Seems like a common problem.

// Trigger click on summary link.
  if (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(1) == 'add') {
    $script = 'jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(".link-edit-summary").click(); });';
    drupal_add_js($script, 'inline');
  }

.. did it for me :)

Yes we use the summary field and it is important for the mechanics of our sites and is usually populated by site owners/editors. However, I want the summary to be closed by default as it confuses site contributors and often results in them deleting or changing the summary when we don't want them to

There is not a one size fits all solution here. But there is a good case for a custom module and I wonder whether one exists already??? It should behave as below.

Set defaults for node summary

• Always closed by default
• Always open by default
• Only open if populated

It should probably exist as a conditional field which is revealed when 'Summary input' is selected on a content type.

If anyone can point me to a module that does this. I'd very very happy indeed :-)

Hi,
If you wanna to let the summaries openned by default in field_collection, you could use this :

function MODULE_form_FORMID_node_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  // By default, add a blank space to each summaries in order to force display them.
  $delta = 0;
  $max_delta = $form['YOUR FIELD COLLECTION'][LANGUAGE_NONE]['#max_delta'];

  while ($delta <= $max_delta) {
      $form['YOUR FIELD COLLECTION'][LANGUAGE_NONE][$delta]['THE BODY WITH SUMMARY FIELD'][LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['summary']['#default_value'] = '&nbsp;';
      $delta++;
  }
}

Regards, Benftwc ;)

All other ideas where nice but have their drawbacks

One would think that such a simple but obvious requirement would be standard core. I ran into this problem when D7 was first launched and solved the problem by creating and additional body called summary which was time intensive but gave control over character limitation display and required.

Thank you Mstrelan for this great module will make my job and many others much more simpler.

Works like a charm :)

Thanks for posting this.

In true Drupal style, here is another way to solve it. I took the best of the solutions from above (thanks), but in my case I wanted to be able to have this setting as an option on all summary fields. This can be improved on to disable the choice if the summary field is disabled ... but here you go ...

If you use this, you will need to go to your Manage Fields page and check the 'Summary is required' field. When checked, the field is made visible by default and required (the description text is tweaked a little too).

function MYMODULE_form_field_ui_field_edit_form_alter(&$form, $form_state) {
  if (isset($form['#field']['type']) && $form['#field']['type'] == 'text_with_summary') {
    $form['instance']['settings']['summary_is_required'] = array(
        '#type' => 'checkbox',
        '#title' => t('Summary is required'),
        '#default_value' => isset($instance['settings']['summary_is_required']) ? $instance['settings']['summary_is_required'] : '0',
        '#description' => t('When checked the summary field will be made visible by default and will be a mandatory field.'),
    );
  }
}

function MYMODULE_field_widget_form_alter(&$element, &$form_state, &$context) {
  if (isset($context['instance']['settings']['summary_is_required']) && $context['instance']['settings']['summary_is_required'] && (!isset($form_state['input']['form_id']) || $form_state['input']['form_id'] != 'field_ui_field_edit_form')) {
    $element['summary']['#required'] = TRUE;
    $element['summary']['#description'] = t("You must provide a summary value.");

    if(($key = array_search('text-summary',$element['summary']['#attributes']['class'])) !== false) {
      unset($element['summary']['#attributes']['class'][$key]);
    }
  }
}

I agree. This module will display the Summary field by default, and also allows you to make the Summary field required. Available for both D7 and D8.

That worked great - thank you!

I discovered unsetting the #attributes property achieves the same result by removing the classes from the wrapper div:

/**
 * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
 */
function hook_form_FORM_ID_alter(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id) {
  if (isset(unset($form['body']['widget'][0]['summary']['#attributes'])) {
    unset($form['body']['widget'][0]['summary']['#attributes']);
  }
}

This technique is also compatible with Inline Entity Form, where unsetting #attached failed to disable the jQuery collapsible behavior:

/**
 * Implements hook_inline_entity_form_entity_form_alter().
 */
function hook_inline_entity_form_entity_form_alter(&$entity_form, &$form_state) {
  if (isset($entity_form['body']['widget'][0]['summary']['#attributes'])) {
    unset($entity_form['body']['widget'][0]['summary']['#attributes']);
  }
}