> Did you check if all datatyps fields of your class the checkbox "required" is unchecked?
No, like I said, I want the URL to be 'required'. This issue is that I do not want the 'Text' (description) field to be required, and it seems these requirements are inseparable.
> URL datatype has only one single field "location", (3.8.6)
But I think is not a description, it is the Linktext
<a http ..>Linktext</a>
If the problem is on backendsite perhaps is possible to modify
\standard\templates\content\datatype\edit\ezurl.tpl
? input a standardvalue there and set to "hidden"
I experienced this, too, after upgrading a site to 3.8.3. Earlier (3.4), the URL datatype did not require a Text for the hyperlink. The output template created a nice Link using the URL as text, if none was entered.
I fear, that this input validation is done somewhere in the PHP code of the ezurl datatype, so one would have to hack this code to allow empty "hyperlink texts" again :(
I suggest to file a bug report, as this at least is breaking backwards compatibilty and is annoying in most cases, too.