How to manually change title after ? [#549354]

This seems like a basic function, but I have not found any way to change the title AFTER it has automatically been generated.

I want the nodetitle to be automatic (which this module does great) but I also want to be able to manually assign a more appropriate title at a later time. How could this be done ?

Comments

Comment #1

Roar-1 CreditAttribution: Roar-1 commented 14 August 2009 at 16:11

To answer my own question, if you have this module set to "Automatically generate the title if the title field is left empty " then you can simply edit the node to insert a title.

However, when you have this module set to "Automatically generate the title and hide the title field" - the title field doesn't show up on the edit node page so there is no way to give a manual title.

It would be ideal if this module would "hide the title field" when creating a new node (as it does) but "shows the title field" when editing the node.

Comment #2

mpaler CreditAttribution: mpaler commented 25 September 2009 at 23:46

I think an even better way to handle this would be able to continue to hide the title field, but when you go back to edit the form, it would some how be emptied in the background so that when you re-save the form any changes effecting the title would be realized in the node title.

The proper way to do with is to probably to modify the automatic nodetitle code itself. A possible quick and dirty way would be to set the title field to be visible in the automatic nodetitle settings, then in the node form itself, hide it using css and then alerting the contents of the form field using javascript. (I forget if you can do that using js?)...