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Limit Characters Displayed in ComplexTableField


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Marko

Community Member, 2 Posts

31 January 2012 at 1:01pm

Hi, I'd like to limit the number of characters that are displayed in a ComplexTableField (in CMS) while keeping the underlying data in tact for display in the popup. Any thoughts?

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martimiz

Forum Moderator, 1391 Posts

1 February 2012 at 6:23am

Edited: 01/02/2012 6:24am

One simple way to do is to create a function in your DataObject that returns the truncated text, then add the name of that function to the summary fields, like

static $summary_fields = array(
	'Name',
	'Title',
	'TruncatedCondent'
);

function TruncatedContent() {
	// return $this->Content, truncated in some way
}