[Solved] Ditto truncLen help, trying to limit story on homepage..

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4hero Reply #1, 18 years, 6 months ago

Please help,

This is driving me crazy, I have read all the posts relating to truncLen and just cannot get the latest news story on my homepage to limit to 20 words (it has to due to limited space).

The homepage is looking in two folders for the latest published story, the actual latest published story is showing on my homepage ok, it is just not limited to 20 words.

Here is my chunk, it’s called "latestNewsChunk"

<p class="headline"><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="View story">[+title+]</a></p>
<p class="date">[+date+]</p>
<p class="summary">[+introtext+]</p>

Here is the call from my template.

[[Ditto? &startID=`37,20` &summarize=`1` &total=`1` &tpl=`latestNewsChunk` &trunc=`1` &truncLen=`20`!]]

Now, I have read on other posts to use the [+summary+], but what exactly is this field in the manager? All I can see is the content (html) section, the Summary (introtext) and custom TV’s I have made.

Please can someone help, I’m going crazy with this rolleyes

Thanks in advance.

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antey Reply #2, 18 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: 4hero at Apr 01, 2008, 03:43 PM

Now, I have read on other posts to use the [+summary+], but what exactly is this field in the manager? All I can see is the content (html) section, the Summary (introtext) and custom TV’s I have made.

Please can someone help, I’m going crazy with this

Thanks in advance.

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx/CustomModifiers#phx:word_limit

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4hero Reply #3, 18 years, 6 months ago

WooHoo, thanks antey!! It now works beautifully grin

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #4, 18 years, 6 months ago

Here is more information on the summary extender, activated in Ditto 2 with &extenders=`summary`
http://ditto.modxcms.com/extenders/summary.html