At 10:26 AM 4/1/2011 +0800, Jason O'Neil wrote: [snip]
The correct meaning of "collapsed" seems to mean that it is a smaller text box, a single line, not multiple lines.
Semantics at work... it fooled me too. (Although I don't see a smaller box, but that could well be that I might have tweaked that part of css.)
If you want to make the subfield visible by default, without making it mandatory, the trick is to make the marc field mandatory, but the subfield not mandatory. This makes all the subfields of that field visible by default, though the subfields themselves will not be mandatory.
Thank you - your solution actually works. For the record, it looks as though bug 1756 (reported as fixed 2008-07-20 09:02:14) is very close to this. Best, Paul Tired old sys-admin