How to limit a text display

jakobe75
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13 years 3 days ago #187667 by jakobe75

How to limit a text display was created by jakobe75

I want a short description to appear in one of my CB-lists columns.

this description is written by the profile owner...but the amount of text I allow them to display on their actual profile is far longer than what can be effectively displayed on a cb list.

so would it better to....

A. Limit the amount of text that is displayed on the CBlist column.

or

B. Create another field/tab that only shows up to the user upon profile edit and then tell them that this is their customizable "search description" or something to that nature.

Is there even a way of limiting by character count what a delimiter or any other feild can display on a cblist?

?

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13 years 3 days ago #187702 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic Re: How to limit a text display

You could use incubator project CB Query Field and query the database directly for the fields value which would let you use database functions to cut the text short. Example as follows.

Code:

SELECT CONCAT( TRIM( LEFT( `cb_text`, 20 ) ), '...' ) FROM `#__comprofiler` WHERE `user_id` = [user_id]

With the above it'll return the first 20 characters of field cb_text then add ... to the end after trimming trailing spaces.

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