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Show 30 characters of content with Ditto

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    _michel_ Reply #1, 20 years, 4 months ago
    Hi.

    How can I list the first 30 charactrs of a document with the ditto snippet?

    Here is what I have tried so far, but without great success :

    [!Ditto? &startID=`52` &truncLen=`30` &tpl=`NewsChunk`!]


    And here is my NewsChunk :
    <li>
<p><a href="[*id*]">[+menutitle+]</a></p>
<p>[+summary+]</p>
</li>


    I would like to get data from the content of the document, not the summary(introtext).

    Thanks.

    Michel.
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      MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #2, 20 years, 2 months ago
      Does Ditto 1.0.2 fix this?
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        dazzakiller Reply #3, 19 years, 6 months ago
        It took me a while to work this out for myself. Not sure if you had found answer by now but here is how I got it working:

        [[Ditto? &startID=`2` &summarize=`2` &total=`22` &commentschunk=`Comments` &tpl=`nl_blog_home` &paginate=`0` &alwaysshow=`1` &trunc=`1` &truncSplit=`0` &truncLen=`50`]]


        The important varible is &truncSlit=`0`. By default this is set to `1` which it looks like it over-rides the truncation charactor settings, and uses some kind of default content splitting setting.

        Regards, happy modx’in.