Remove limit from Summary

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Paulp Reply #1, 12 years, 4 months ago

Hi All,

Just having a play with the New Articles and would like to remove the Summary limit, I've had a look through all the settings but can't seem to find it.

Does anyone know how to disable this ?

Thanks

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AMDbuilder Reply #2, 12 years, 4 months ago

Did you check the Article Row Chunk? You can adjust things [[+introtext:default=`[[+content:ellipsis=`400`]]`]]

Adjusting the introtext limit on the other hand, would require a feature request.

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Paulp Reply #3, 12 years, 4 months ago

Hi AMDbuilder,

The limit is actually set when creating an article, as your typing into the summery box once you hit the limit it gets a red border and you have to remove some in order to save the document.

Cheers

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AMDbuilder Reply #4, 12 years, 4 months ago

Ah, you would need to add a feature request to get that extended. Guess my intros tend to be on the short side...

http://bugs.modx.com/projects/articles/issues

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onesmarthost Reply #5, 12 years, 4 months ago

I've just started to play around with articles as well and I am finding the introtext limit quite difficult to work with as my blog summary page looks quite bare with a couple of lines.

Does anyone know of a way to increase this?

Thanks

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smooth-graphics Reply #6, 12 years, 4 months ago

You can do manually in assets/components/articles/js/article/create.js and update.js you can find this code:

xtype: 'textarea'
            ,fieldLabel: _('articles.article_summary')
            ,description: '<b>[[*introtext]]</b><br />'+_('articles.article_summary')
            ,name: 'introtext'
            ,id: 'modx-resource-introtext'
            ,maxLength: 255
            ,anchor: '100%'
            ,value: config.record.introtext || ''

whereas ,maxLength: 255 should be the value to change. I didn't tried this out and am not 100% sure if there's another limit but you can try.

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Menno Pietersen Reply #7, 12 years, 4 months ago

That did not do the trick for me, Is there any way to have a --Read More-- tag to add in the post content? Like in Wordpress?

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Paulp Reply #8, 12 years, 4 months ago

Created a Feature Request for this as I don't think we should have to edit the core files to do it.

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smooth-graphics Reply #9, 12 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: ThaClown at Jan 16, 2012, 08:02 AM

That did not do the trick for me, Is there any way to have a --Read More-- tag to add in the post content? Like in Wordpress?

In the post content? What for? Or do you mean post overview? Then there's by default.

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pixeltoaster Reply #10, 12 years, 3 months ago

Hi

I'd like to raise maxlength limit too.
Did you find a way to do it?

Thx