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Hey Lee,

This has been a concious decission since the "title" field is special and separate from all other fields which are defined by the structure. In fact, we have detected a significant number of real world structures that have a second title in the structure itself since they use the one that comes out of the box just for giving a name to the web content article that is meaningful for content admins only (and not displayed to end users). In those cases, having the special title field along with others kept creating confusion.

We are aware that there is some risk in putting the title out of the form, but after evaluating it we believe it is small. Having the title there is a increasingly common pattern across web applications and one that we are applying in more places within Liferay, so even in the case a user may miss it initially, we believe it's a pattern that will be learned quite easily.

I hope that makes sense.

​​​​​​​Jorge

How does this now work when searching for web content? A tonne of "Untitled Basic Web Content" is what I'm envisioning. And does that change to the other template names so "Untitled Global - Slider".

I think because it's so obscure now and doesn't look like a form entry field at all, it should be required again. Maybe even calling it "Friendly Name" would have helped clear up the dupe labels "Title" "Title". It really doesn't look like a form field, wouldn't moving it into the sidebar have been a better place?