Enable Node menu automatically
I don't think that it's possible through the UI. But here is how I would do programmatically:

function mymodule_node_presave($node) {
  if ($node-&gt;type == 'article') {
    $node-&gt;menu['enabled'] = 1;
  }
}


It would make your "Provide a menu link" checkbox as checked automatically.

You can also set all these values if you need to:



EDIT: I'm so sorry I forgot the node_save line in the code. Here is the correction:

function mymodule_node_presave($node) {
  if ($node-&gt;type == 'article') {
    $node-&gt;menu['enabled'] = 1;
    node_save($node);
  }
}