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By mista_sage on
Hi all,
I've got a random article showing on the homepage using views, and it's currently showing the full article rather than a teaser..
How can I limit the number of characters it shows on the homepage?
..does that make sense? =P
thanks,
sage
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You can change the view so it
You can change the view so it shows the teaser.
The thing is it is in teaser
The thing is it is in teaser mode.
I went in the settings for 'Row Style' under the Basic Settings and the Build Mode dropdown is selected as 'teaser'...
Is there anywhere else to define the number of characters a teaser shows or something?
Ok, I see what happened. The
Ok, I see what happened. The short version character limit was in the 'Post settings' was set at no limit...
And I had to re-save all the articles for it to show the limit. It sets the teaser limit on save - not on load.
Hope this helps someone in the future =P
There is the retease module
There is the retease module to save you from manually resaving all content.