How to trim ads in listing view to display title only

There's no way to do this in the current versions.
I'll consider adding this feature in a future release, as time permits.

As always, patch submissions are welcome!

I agree with original poster this is a very needed feature. It's hard to have classifieds when the users can only see a couple ads lol.. Overall this module is great!! though thanks for contributing it

I too agree. I really need this feature also, it makes the listings very unreadable - even if you could use the

to identify teaser vs full body of content.

Couldn't this be done when the ads are being viewed by messing with the template? You'd still get the hit off the database for the information, but you could just not display the full post. I'm going to look into this sometime this week hopefully.

Subscribing

This will be addressed in the 6.x branch and not back-ported to the 5.x unless there is sufficient demand or someone wants to provide a patch. See #341193: Automatic teaser truncation to x characters

I really need this feature in the 5.x branch

(Subscribing)

Who am I to deny popular demand? I'll flag this for backport to the 5.x branch. I'll also review some of the other patches/features that are being put into the 6.x branch and see if they can be easily brought over. I'll also need to set up a 5.x test environment so I expect resolution will take about a week.

Cheers,

Miles

Fantastic!!!
That's great news. Thanks Miles. I look forward to the D5 backport.

G

Status: Not there yet, I'm hoping to get up to date on the D5 backporting within another week or so.

Cheers,

Miles

Sorry to bug you, but.... any news on the backport?
:o)

A fair question. :-) I've been distracted with some other projects. I expect to have this resolved and a 5.x release out by Fri 4 Sep 2009.

Cheers,

Miles

Well my 5.x environment is up and running. Amazing how fast a site runs without any modules (except for ed_classified, of course).

This is now fixed in -dev branch as per #341193: Automatic teaser truncation to x characters, (and -dev releases are now available again for download), pending next 5.x release later this week.

Cheers,

Miles

Hooray!!!!
Thanks Miles.

I couldn't resist trying out the dev version, but it gives me this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _ed_classified_unpublish_ad() in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/ed_classified/ed_classified_delete.inc on line 20

Will wait for the 5.x release.

Is this really fixed? Whatever happened to the September 5.x release?
This issue was closed, did I miss something?

5.x is no longer supported (and hasn't been since D7 was released): you can trim titles by using Views to build your lists and using Views text trimming: no need to add one more setting to the module.