Node Body Token.

If you already use CCK you can create a cck field called body or description and use it instead of core's body.
There is also an issue about creating a token for the first 100/200/400 letters of body, but it's an old issue and I doubt if it will be committed any time soon.

I just wanted to point people to #181546: Token for body of node, which offers some solutions for people who don't want to use a CCK field instead of their node's body field. To be more specific, you can write a small module that exposes the node body as a token and use that on your site.

Hi guys,

If you were to create a new cck field to be used as the body, how would you hide the core body when creating content?
Thanks.

falco, you should do a search on using hook_form_alter(). This allows you to alter forms in a custom module in order to do things like hide fields on the node form. If you don't have any luck, try asking for help in the forums.

Awesome, thanks for the tip mate.

Edit the Content type in question, expand "Submission form settings" and delete the "Body" from the Body field label box and submit the form. Your body field must dissappear.

Rob

http://drupal.org/node/181546#comment-3002566 Worked for me

Updated component.