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Maarten Holland
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Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:31:24 am
Example: I've got some articles in a folder. Each article starts with a 5-line intro. I've created an overviewpage that shows the name and full intro of every article in that folder. But I don't want to show the full intro: I only want to show the first two lines of it, followed by a 'read more'-link. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Second question: How can I cut of long URL's in the middle, like it is done in this forum? I guess I have to modify a line-view? Cheers, Maarten
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Hans Melis
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Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:05:08 pm
Hi Maarten, Q1: Use the shorten template operator. Example, {"This text is too long"|shorten(4)} produces "This..." Q2: Either you use the shorten operator again if you have a hyperlink with a text description. Or you can use the autolink operator to detect URLs in a text and make them clickable that way. The autolink operator also takes one (optional) parameter: max characters.
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Hans
Hans
http://blog.hansmelis.be
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Tore Skobba
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 2:20:04 am
Hmm using the shorten on an xml field might give broken xhtml. I.e intro=A link is good intro=A <a href="www.link.com">link</a> is good intro.shorten(5)= "A <a ..." I think at least
Cheers
Tore
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Maarten Holland
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 2:26:34 am
Thank you for your quick reply! I've got a small problem. Now I use the following code for showing the full description:
{$category.item.data_map.description.data_text}
When I change this into:
{$category.item.data_map.description.data_text|shorten(15, "... read more")} nothing is showed. Source says:
<div class="date">
<?... read more
<BR /><BR />
</div> The code: {"This one works just fine!"|shorten(15, "... read more")} works fine. Do you know what's wrong with my first string? Regards, Maarten
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Tore Skobba
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 7:10:37 am
Does your data_text contain anything (debug output).. You do know that if it is an xml text field begning with some formating (15+ chars) then nothing will show.. Only some hidden html tags cause there referces are not there.
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Hans Melis
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 7:48:56 am
You're asking to shorten the pure XML, you should use the shorten operator on the HTML: {$category.item.data_map.description.content|shorten(15)} for regular text fields. Or {$category.item.data_map.description.content.output.output_text|shorten(15)} for XML text fields.
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Hans
Hans
http://blog.hansmelis.be
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Maarten Holland
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 12:21:33 pm
Thank you very much. I'd forgotten it's a XML-field. My bad. . . Works just fine now. Thank you both for your time!
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Ulitsa Tal Arik
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Friday 15 October 2004 4:15:14 am
How to "cut off" text, if I have table in description, this tag cut the piece of table and destroy the all design.... :(
It's very uncomfortable plz help!!! koban@inbox.ru
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