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majeske
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Dec 16, 2006, 1:01 PM

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On the catgegory index pages I want to show part of the $article.content$ say 100 characters and then ( Read More). I don't want to have to create a separate $article.summary$ for each article.

Can I do this somehow?

Thanks


ross
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Dec 17, 2006, 2:56 PM

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Re: [majeske] Category Index showing [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi again!

Thanks for posting!

What you'll be able to do here is use the placeholder modifier that tells Article Manager to only return a certain number of words. That would look like this:

$article.summary:maxWords(16)$

Keep in mind that this isn't a character count. It's done based on the number of words so you may need to play around with it a bit.

Also, remember to republish your articles so that your changes take effect. Of course, let me know how you make out Smile.
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majeske
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Dec 17, 2006, 6:20 PM

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That worked perfectly Ross, thanks