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

[Victor Livakovsky]

> the problem I'm still having is if the article doesn't have a
> short/subheader then the meta description isn't populated.
>
> How can I get register:newsSubheader to populate with bodytext?  To get a
> little more fancy, if this is possible, how might I do a crop on the (new)
> register?

Well, haven't tried though, but you may use stdWrap properties:
page.headerData.999.local.description.ifEmpty.field = bodutext
page.headerData.999.local.description.ifEmpty.crop = 100 | ... | 1


> I also need one last piece which I can't seem to figure out where to 
> start.
>
> how to take the article author and populate into (what I'm currently
> guessing to be)

Mybe, also use 'field' stdWrap property?
page.headerData.999.local.author.field = author