length news sumary text

[musicscore]

Hey,

Because I have 2 news colums, I want each colum max. 50 char. long.

I added this command to my template :

{cms_module module="news" start="5" number="5" sortby="news_date" length="50"}

Everything workst fine but the length is more then 50 char.

I use CMSMS 0.12.1. Can I set the maximum length of the Title tekst to 50

Greetings

Musicscore

[Dr.CSS]

just don't put more than 50 char. in the summary box at the top of the news edit page.

    mark

[musicscore]

My site will be edited by others (sportclub coaches / trainers, etc.) I'm trying to make the site foolproof. I'm getting very far but there are stil some problems. So is the length of the news title & the possiblility of setting where a page will be in the menu by the editor, not only by the admin. Userrights could be more specific.

If you have a hint, please let me know.

Greetings

Musicscore

(sorry for my bad English)

[zerrvox]

this is easily done in the template with the smarty function truncate..

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 {eval var=$entry->content|truncate:350:"..."}

first parameter determines how many characters to truncate to.
second is a text string that replaces the truncated text. (not included in lenght paramer)

I know this topic is a bit old, but I thought I would give you the answer if you still need it and have not solved it and It would be available to other people searching in the forum for a way to do this..