How to stop Magento requiring two product descriptions?

Question

I read somewhere that you can stop Magento from requiring two product descriptions... this would suit me to the ground, since I'm adding a lot of products to our store that are just basic things with literally one-sentence descriptions and rather than duplicating the sentence to SE's annoynace or putting a full stop or whatever in one of the boxes, I'd like to disable them.

Does anyone know where to turn off requiring the full-descriptions? (Or short if not..)?

Answer 1

This is a common request and I'm surprised it isn't documented yet.

In the menu Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes click the entry for "Description". Change it's "Values Required" to "No" and save.