[TYPO3-english] tt_news subhead/bodytext into meta descriptionfield?

[Victor Livakovsky]

Hi, Douglas.

> we do not want to populate the description field for each news article.
> we'd like a way to automate populating meta description= from the bodytext
> of the article so that when facebook gets the meta description from typo3
> something useful is returned.
>
> does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this problem.

Have a look at tt_news manual [1] section "Adding dynamic Metatags in SINGLE 
view" - there you'll find a valuable info on your problem.

[1] 
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/tt_news/3.0.1/view/1/4/#id2514027