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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!

Anybody? 

Are you trying to get the first few lines of content from each child like a summary?

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.

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.

swathes wrote: Is there anyway to remove the character limit on the description?

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.

I think the actual form has a character limit - or does it get this value from the database?

I'm wondering - can't found some limitation in addcontent.php  ...

OK, thanks for the tip.  Will take a look and get back to you with the result, or to grovel for more help!

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?

swathes wrote: do I have to do anything else?

No ...

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?!

I found it posted it here...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg42482