Teasers by content type

Hi,

Firstly let me thank you for taking up the much needed Teaser tweaking project.

You're welcome ;).

1. Displaying images or thumbnails with Teasers.

I was about to answer that this seems more of an node & theme issue but I got to see the view you have on teaser tweaking. I think I need this feature too, so it should be first in my list of todos.

2. If nodes are short like weblinks teaser can be full nodes... meaning user should be able to rate it and submit comments.

I don't follow you on this one though :). What you want is that when the teaser is short enough, that the rating and "submit comment" links appear underneath it ? Because if you just click on the node's title, you access the node and have then access to these functionnalities.

As for you only image and title request, that is in my opinion only a node & theme issue. You should set the teaser length to 0, therefore only title is printed, and hopefully, if I plan everything well with your first request, the image will be shown...

I need some time to find a proper solution, but it seems feasible to me.

Ok so basically, the rating/comment has to be applied on the full node, and not only the teaser itself. I mean, you don't want the teaser to be a node by itself, only want to have access to those two functions for the teaser's node, right ? If this is the case, that should be feasible. If you want to have a different node for the teaser, that's feasible too, but out of scope of this module.

Hi there,

just a small post to say that I won't be able to work on this before a couple of weeks. Don't hesitate to remind me though if it takes too long ;).

acp

Let me just add my thanks for the module and my vote for the functionality of being able to determine teaser length by content type. BTW: There is a very easy way to just display an image and title in a node listing using the Views module - it gives pretty good output even without theming.

Hi,

I'm finally back. I'll get working on two things in the following days :

• the voting and rating on teasers (I'll check if that's feasible first though)
• the teaser length based on content type (normally, that's easy)

Teaser length per content type is added on CVS version (should be available tomorrow for download). Note however that length settings only apply when you retrimm all contents using tweakbox. If you create a new content, default sitewide settings apply. That will be changed in the nearby future (maybe tomorrow ;)).
It's now possible to set a "no teaser" option (per content type, not for the default value [yet]), by entering a -1 length.

Added trimming upon submission with respect to the settings of the different content types. I'll now take a look at the comment/rating issue. Btw, it's possible to disable teasers by giving a negative length, something which isn't possible for the default settings. That can be easily added, if some find this usefull, I can modify the select list for the default teaser length option and add a "disabled" entry (or maybe change it to a textfield).

acp