How to edit a

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yapster Reply #1, 16 years, 10 months ago

I am still trying to figure of how to edit the numbers of characters that is set by a default "summary" &extender...

How I understand is that the numbers of characters is controlled by parameter
"&truncLen" and "&truncOffset", when I put them in it didn’t change...

is there any way to edit the parameters?... Code is pasted below

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[[Ditto? &parents=`2` &display=`2` &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &paginate=`1` &extenders=`summary,dateFilter`&truncLen=’1’ &truncOffset=’20’ &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags`]] Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles

[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]

[[Reflect? &config=`wordpress` &dittoSnippetParameters=`parents:2` &id=`wp` &getDocuments=

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jusicgn Reply #2, 16 years, 10 months ago

Quote from: yapster at Nov 28, 2009, 09:02 PM

[[Ditto? &parents=`2` &display=`2` &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &paginate=`1` &extenders=`summary,dateFilter`&truncLen=’1’ &truncOffset=’20’ &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags`]] Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles

Don’t use apostrophes in snippet calls - these (marked red in the quote) have to be backticks (`).

Good documentation of Ditto and the summary extender at http://www.pogwatch.com/ditto/ditto-extenders/ditto-summary.html

Greetz
JUSI

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kp52 Reply #3, 16 years, 10 months ago

Apart from the apostrophe error, have you maybe got &trunc (one or zero to enable/disable truncation) and &truncLen (number of characters before truncating) mixed up? &truncLen=`1` doesn’t look very realistic, somehow.
shocked

KP

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mmjaeger Reply #4, 16 years, 10 months ago

&truncLen in the call seems to be fully ignored by the call = if I edit the number in the extender file, it works - any idea what the reason could be?

thanks

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kp52 Reply #5, 16 years, 10 months ago

&truncLen works fine for me (using Ditto as installed with MODx 1.0.0). A manual split or any text in the introtext field will have a higher precedence than the &truncLen setting, but I can’t see how that would reflect your experience with changing the extender code. huh

What does your Ditto call look like, and where have you edited the extender file?

KP

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mmjaeger Reply #6, 16 years, 10 months ago

I use these parameters:

// set locale	
	setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8', 'de.UTF8', 'de_DE.UTF-8', 'de.UTF-8');
	
	// parameters
	$id				= 'dtHeadlines';
	$parents 		= 175;
	$limit			= 2;
	$paginate		= 0;
	$dateFormat 	= '%d. %B %Y'; // '%d. %B %Y, %H:%M:%S'
	$hideFolders	= 1;
	$extenders		= array('summary', 'dateFilter');
	//$language 		= 'german';	
	$truncLen		= 125;
	$filter 		='id,152,2';
	
	// templates
	// item
	$tpl			= '@CODE:
		<li class="news-item">
			<a class="news-title ellipsis" href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+title+]">[+title+]</a><br />
			<p><span class="news-date">[+date+]</span> - [+summary:notags+]</p>
		</li>';

How to edit a "summary" &extender?