making the release date not required

is there any way to make the release date, and possibly other options, not required?

You can make the fields not required by removing the 'required' from the input class in the forms or from the form validation script. For example, to make the release date not required, you can edit 'administrator/com_projectlog/views/project/tmpl/default.php' and in the submitbutton() javascript function remove:

else if(form.release_date.value == ''){
alert( '' );
return false;
}


To make the title not required you would change the input from: