Hi,

I use excerpt with the node visibility patch:
http://drupal.org/node/74936

Now, when I don't enter anything in the excerpt field, the teaser is empty!
There needs to be an admin setting to togge whether an empty excerp will show the default teaser or whether it will show an empty teaser.

In most cases, when an excerpt is not entered, I need the default teaser to still display without having to add a teaser in the excerpt field.

Is this possible?

thanks,
ktnk.

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#5 149536_blank_auto_teaser_5.patch756 bytesdeviantintegral
#2 blank_auto_teaser.patch766 bytesdeviantintegral

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gusaus commented

I'm 'occasionally' having this problem also. The teaser is not being autogenerated when nothing is manually entered.

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deviantintegral commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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new blank_auto_teaser.patch766 bytes

I've actually had this problem even without the patch mentioned above applied.

I've attached a 2-line patch which fixes the issue.

--Andrew

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hayesr commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

I believe this functionality has been added.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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deviantintegral commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Needs review
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new 149536_blank_auto_teaser_5.patch756 bytes

It turns out that this is still an issue in the latest release. To replicate:

  1. Create a node, leave the teaser blank, put in a simple body like "testing".
  2. Edit the node, note that the teaser field is filled in. Change the body, and save. The teaser isn't updated even though the user has never made an explicit action to customize the teaser.

Perhaps this is by design, but I find that most nodes don't have explict teasers, so they would quickly become out of date.

Here is a rerolled patch from above.

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hayesr commented

Has anyone else reviewed this patch to see if it works?

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deviantintegral commented

I've been running this patch since the initial one in October 2007 without issues, though this is on one site only.

Can you replicate the issue as I detailed in #5?

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hayesr commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

I've committed this to the D5 branch. Thanks for the patch.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.