[TYPO3-english] tt_news Crop text

[Stano Paška]

Hmm,

in your first message you wrote "crop the content to a certain
length", so I suppose that you want crop subheader/bodytext field...

When you want crop header (title) of tt_new record, JoH assnau wrote solution.

Stano.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:49 PM, ppraveenk <praveen.penupati at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thanks for the reply and kind words...
> My goal is to crop the dynamically rendered content in TypoScript.
> My website has a home page with different sections like media, news, videos
> etc.
> We use automaketemplate parser extension to render the home page dynamically
> using subparts and markers.
> The typoscript code uses tt_news to display the latest article.
> I have a system folder in the typo3 back end that contains some articles.
> Using tt_news the typoscript gets the heading of the latest article [I am
> not sure about the 'view', I think it is 'latest' as per the functionality].
> I would like to crop this heading to a specified length.
> Please find the typoscript code below:
>
> 1.   subparts.mediacontent < plugin.tt_news
> 2.   subparts.mediacontent {
> 3.    templateFile = fileadmin/templates/media.html
> 4.    defaultCode = LIST
> 5.    limit = 1
> 6.    singlePid = 12
> 7.    pid_list = 13
> 8.    noPageBrowser = 1
> 9.    backPid = 21
> 10. }
>
> Please let me know in case more details are needed.
> I shall try my best to provide you the required details.
>
> cheers!
> praveen.
>
> JoH asenau wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well - you still didnt' prove enough information about the stuff you want
>> to
>> crop.
>> Simply writing "I want to crop the content ..." isn't enough, since
>> "content" can be almost anything from simple text to header to images to
>> whatever ...
>>
>> So what exactly is your goal and for which "view" (list, latest, single
>> ...)
>> of tt_news do you want to achieve it?
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Joey
>>
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