trim news title characters length to 20 in latest news webpart

mmm mmmm asked on May 7, 2014 14:07

how can i trim news title characters length to 20 in latest news webpart(not in database attribute)

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Brenden Kehren answered on May 8, 2014 06:55

The below will get you a shortened version of the news summary data. Keep in mind the pad string ("...") counts towards the length (100 in this case).

<%# LimitLength(Eval("NewsSummary"), 100, "...", true) %>

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Yehuda Lando answered on May 7, 2014 16:10 (last edited on May 7, 2014 16:10)

You can use the macro method LimitLength(string text, int length, string padString, bool wholeWords) in your transformation. The last two parameters are optional.

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mmm mmmm answered on May 8, 2014 06:39

first thank you for your speed respons, but can you help me more how to add the macro in this news transformation :

<%# Eval("NewsTitle")%>

<%# GetDateTime("NewsReleaseDate", "d") %>

<%# Eval("NewsSummary") %>

and thank you again

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mmm mmmm answered on May 8, 2014 07:16

thank you very much it is worked very well and thank you again

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Rananjay Singh answered on June 15, 2015 11:22

You can use this

<%# LimitLength(Eval("NewsSummary"), 100, "...", true) %>

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