Re: Trouble creating a fallback for news articles

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Fuzzical Logic Reply #1, 14 years, 2 months ago

Have you tried:

    [[!+introtext:ne=``:then=`[[!+introtext]]`:else=`[[!+content]]`]]

I've run into flow problems with conditions when not using uncached. This is especially true when using placeholders such as you are doing.

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 14 years, 2 months ago

do you get anything just with

[[+content]]

?

includeContent is on?

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Fuzzical Logic Reply #3, 14 years, 2 months ago

No problem! Which solved your problem? Uncached (!) or includeContent=`1`? It might be useful to know for users later who might face the same problem.

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Fuzzical Logic Reply #4, 14 years, 2 months ago

Beautiful. Much more elegant.

Thanks for sharing.

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BobRay Reply #5, 14 years, 2 months ago

I think this will work to limit the content:

[[+introtext:default=`[[+content:striptags:ellipsis=`100`]]`]]

BTW, you have two too many closing brackets on the right end.

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