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Truncate the characters displayed in a blog post

This is how to reduce the number of characters displayed in a blog post on the default.aspx page of a blog site created from the OOTB SharePoint blog template.

  • Open up the site in SharePoint Designer
  • Open the default.aspx and switch to Code View
  • Perform a Find & Replace for the following:
    • Find- 
      • &lt;Field Name="Body"/&gt;
    • Replace- 
      • &lt;Limit Len="99" IgnoreTags="TRUE" MoreText="..."&gt;&lt;Column Name=&quot;Body&quot;/&gt;&lt;/Limit&gt;
 
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This would limit the number of characters to 99 and display the text contained in the MoreText attribute as the last characters. Check out this for more info on the Limit element.

Do remember to back up the page before attempting this just in case.... ;)

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Print | posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:35 AM | Filed Under [ MOSS WSS Blog SharePoint Designer ]

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# re: Truncate the characters displayed in a blog post

This is great !!! Thanks a million I have been looking for this functionality for the past 2 weeks.
But I am still stuck on how do I make the " more..." link to individual posts.

I would appreciate it if you have this too.
Thanks.
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Great article!! I want to do the same with the body field of an announcement list. I had tried this but I do not get it working. Will the code be diferent for the announcement list? Thanks in advance.
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this is good stuff... i was struggling with coverting the web part xslt data and modifying output format from there, but changing the CAML (which, until this point I didn't know was possible) is ... harder, yet easier at the same time... strange how that works.
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# Close Extra Formating Tags & Add a Link to the Article

This is great, and much less invasive then changing the ListView to a DataFormWebPart. One small annoyace is if the Blog post contains formated real text where the cutoff point is. if that happens the remained of the page keeps the formating (e.g. bold, underlined, italics) because the associated tag was never closed. My solution to that is to close the possiblie open tags (I know its not the prettiest way to do this, but it works; and the alternative is to switch to the DataFormWebPart and write a bunch of if then statements). So directly following the line that you added from this article:

...&lt;/Limit&gt;

you'll find this section of code:

&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/div&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;

replace that with:

&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;

Again it's not perfect, since we shouldn't really be closing all those tags if they don't exsist (plus they could be more tags like coloring and font styles; feel free to add those if you use them), but its not hurting anything and the alternative is kind of a pain.

To add a link to read the full post you can just add this code directly following the line we just added:

&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;a href="]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HttpVDir CurrentWeb="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;Column Name="ID" URLEncode="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[" style="display:block;width:100%;text-align:right;clear:both;"&gt;&#91; Read the Full Post &#93;&lt;/a&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;

If you combine the tips from the original post and these additions you can adjust have a page with nicely truncated blog posts with easy to follow links to the individual article pages.
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