Remove required fields from magento admin panel

Question

My client ask me to remove the required option from some fields in the product form from magento admin panel, because he don't want to fill this fields.

I need to say to magento that the field Short Description is not required, how can i do this?

Answer 1

Login into magento admin backend.

Go to Catalog => Attributes => Manage Attributes

Then find the attribute of the product (in your case short_description) and click it.

Then set Values Required to No

Answer 2

Go to Catalog->Attributes->Manage Attributes search for the attribute you need to change (in your case Short description) and set the field Required to No