I would like to print out a short synopsis of each child page for a section. I've seen in the documentation that the description field has been used for this. However, I need even longer text; this is restricted.
Can someone tell me how to get the actual content to appear under a child - I can do the rest myself, hopefully!
Please, please help!
Help with menu
Re: Help with menu
Are you trying to get the first few lines of content from each child like a summary?
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
Thats what I am after Mark - but I saw an example of a menu with summary beneath in the documentation. This used the description field. However, this is character limited. Ideally, i'd like to be able to get the first few lines from the actual page content.
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
Is there anyway to remove the character limit on the description? They may well be a way to fudge what I am trying to do now.
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cyberman
Re: Help with menu
If I'm right you have to go with your phpmyadmin in your database to table cms_content field content_name. Currently the type of this field is varchar and the length 255. Change it to tiny-/medium- or longtext and a lenght you wish ... havent't tried yet.swathes wrote: Is there anyway to remove the character limit on the description?
Last edited by cyberman on Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
I think the actual form has a character limit - or does it get this value from the database?
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
OK, thanks for the tip. Will take a look and get back to you with the result, or to grovel for more help! 
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
Doesnt seem to matter what I change it to... Doesnt have any effect. Any ideas?!
p.s Not used phpMyAdmin much - after the change, do I have to do anything else?
p.s Not used phpMyAdmin much - after the change, do I have to do anything else?
Last edited by swathes on Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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swathes
Re: Help with menu
Ok - now I dont know what to do! I've looked through templates, but still cannot see any reference to maxlength.
Can someone please tell me how to remove the maxlength restriction on the Content > Page > Description (title attribute) field?!
Can someone please tell me how to remove the maxlength restriction on the Content > Page > Description (title attribute) field?!
