http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/category/8422.aspx Blog en-US shehan digitalshehan@gmail.com Subtext Version 0.0.0.0 http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/archive/2008/07/08/truncate-the-characters-displayed-in-a-blog-post.aspx <p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Open up the site in SharePoint Designer</li> <li>Open the default.aspx and switch to Code View</li> <li>Perform a Find &amp; Replace for the following: <ul> <li>Find- <ul> <li> <pre class="csharpcode"><span class="attr">&amp;lt;</span>Field Name="Body"/<span class="attr">&amp;gt;</span></pre> </li> </ul> </li> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } ]]></style> <li>Replace- <ul> <li> <pre class="csharpcode"><span class="attr">&amp;lt;</span>Limit Len="99" IgnoreTags="TRUE" MoreText="..."<span class="attr">&amp;gt;</span><span class="attr">&amp;lt;</span>Column Name=<span class="attr">&amp;quot;</span>Body<span class="attr">&amp;quot;</span>/<span class="attr">&amp;gt;</span><span class="attr">&amp;lt;</span>/Limit<span class="attr">&amp;gt;</span></pre> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <pre class="csharpcode"><span class="attr"></span> </pre> <pre class="csharpcode"><a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/images/geekswithblogs_net/shehan/WindowsLiveWriter/Truncatethecharactersdisplayedinablogpos_D973/image_4.png"><img height="447" border="0" width="582" style="border: 0px none ;" alt="image" src="http://geekswithblogs.net/images/geekswithblogs_net/shehan/WindowsLiveWriter/Truncatethecharactersdisplayedinablogpos_D973/image_thumb_1.png" /></a> </pre> <pre class="csharpcode"> </pre> <p>This would limit the number of characters to 99 and display the text contained in the MoreText attribute as the last characters. Check out <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms440854.aspx" target="_blank">this</a> for more info on the Limit element.</p> <p>Do remember to back up the page before attempting this just in case.... ;)</p> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } ]]></style><p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&u=123641"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&u=123641" border="0"/></a></p><iframe src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;PageID=31016&amp;SiteID=1" width=1 height=1 Marginwidth=0 Marginheight=0 Hspace=0 Vspace=0 Frameborder=0 Scrolling=No> <script language='javascript1.1' src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;Browser=NETSCAPE4&amp;NoCache=True&PageID=31016&amp;SiteID=1"></script> <noscript><a href="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Click&amp;Mode=HTML&amp;SiteID=1&amp;PageID=31016" target="_blank"> <img src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;Mode=HTML&amp;SiteID=1&amp;PageID=31016" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""></a> </noscript> </iframe> <img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/aggbug/123641.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> shehan http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/archive/2008/07/08/truncate-the-characters-displayed-in-a-blog-post.aspx Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:35:04 GMT http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/comments/123641.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/archive/2008/07/08/truncate-the-characters-displayed-in-a-blog-post.aspx#feedback 7 http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/comments/commentRss/123641.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/shehan/services/trackbacks/123641.aspx