Teaser for book page child listings

I don't think most people want this feature, and it can be done with views.

I disagree with the first part of this statement. I have been wondering myself why this option doesn't exist by default. It seems very sensible to me.

I think it would make a great option, see my post "Book: Optional display teaser with node titles". A book's table of content often shows a summary of the section in addition to its title. Ideally one should be able to choose to display:

• Titles (as it is now)
• Titles plus teaser
• Title with collapsible teaser section, with an option to show the section
  • Collapsed
  • Expanded

See also (similar requests):

• "Book: teasers instead of titles in list of child pages"
• "showing teasers of subpages"

I disagree with both the idea that most people don't want this and that it can be done with Views. Certainly, you could create a view that will show book pages with teasers, but you will lose other helpful features of book pages, such as the book-specific navigation, the display of the book menu block, etc. A separate thread indicated that it might be possible to do this by customizing the theming of menu items in this case (since the list of child pages is themed as a menu) but there was very little additional information. I'd be happy to figure this out myself but the documentation/examples for theme() and/or hook_theme() are really confusing.

My specific case involves attempting to show custom fields of a content type that is being used as a book page. I'd like to do this without having to hack the Book module directly.

Hi to all

I see that lot of people have been asking for this feature.

I think we all know this can be done with views, but in my case I do not think views would be useful for me: my client will update and add books after the release of the site, and I cannot ask him to create a new view every time he creates a new book, it would be impossible to him.

So is there any way to have teasers along with titles? How can I have the same feature with views so that when a new book is created also a relative view is automatically created and the book even automatically links to it? I'm afraid it's not possible, is it?

thanks,

Sara

> I don't think most people want this feature, and it can be done with views.

What a crappy attitude. A trivial simple google search shows that many want this feature, it's difficult to implement in a module, and ruins book navigation when done in views.

I am interested in this also.

I'd love to have this feature, even as a separate module that simply turns it on or off. The Summary field of a child page could be used as the description of the child link on the parent page.

I've just started looking into creating this type of feature for my books tables of contents, but rather than using a teaser from the body I have a text field I'd like to have displayed. I called this field "summary" as it stands for a summary of the particular chapter (node).

D8 but still related.