Limit Number of characters on timeline
LeonidS AQB Soft Is there a way to limit the number of characters on timeline for new posts from Discussions and Articles? And Posts seems to be lacking the same ability. When I add a post in discussions or articles I have set in timeline settings to "Show Events" on timeline for both.
I would like members to know when there is a new discussion, article or post by adding a limited number of characters of that post to timeline. But... My problem is that when I post a discussion or article the timeline posts the entire post rather than limiting the number of characters on timeline.
Is there any way to limit this?
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Hello John Curtis !
The radical and simple solution is to clear the value of the _see_more language key in the Polyglot. In this case, the users will not have the possibility to get the full text from the Timeline preview.
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Sorry but I don't understand where your saying to look. I searched in Polyglot > keys > timeline > but could not find anything with "._see_more".
I did fine this in All Modules but i don's see any values to clear. I;m sure I'm looking in the wrong place.
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Yes, it is a system key and you have shown right it on your attached screenshot. So now you need just delete the "See more..." value.
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Cool, thanks a lot LeonidS
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LeonidS . I removed to key as you suggested but after posting a test Article I see that this still posted the entire Article on timeline. I'll also include my settings for Articles. Anything else I can try? I'd like to limit the number of characters on timeline for Discussions, Posts and Articles. BTW... I did clear cache before trying to post the Article.
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I check it on our Posts app, you may reduce the length settings of the Articles and check again. But it is better to ask the vendor about it.
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AQB Soft .
Is there a way to limit the number of characters posted to timeline when I make a new post to the Articles app? When I add a post in Articles I have set in timeline settings to "Show Events" on timeline.
I would like members to know when there is a new article by adding a limited number of characters of that post to timeline. But... My problem is that when I post a new Article the timeline posts the entire post rather than limiting the number of characters on timeline. I reduced the number of characters for Articles in the app settings but it has no effect on timeline. Is there any way to limit this?
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I already reduced the length of Articles, Posts and Discussions but it did not make any difference.with posting a snippet of that to timeline. I sent AQB Soft a message below on the Articles and wanted to ask if you had a chance to check on a fix for Posts and Discussions. At this point I can not let members know that there is a new post to Articles, Posts or Discussions because it's posting the entire thing on timeline and the post is way to long. Can't you update the app(s) to add this function?
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Hello
I would like members to know when there is a new article by adding a limited number of characters of that post to timeline. But... My problem is that when I post a new Article the timeline posts the entire post rather than limiting the number of characters on timeline. I reduced the number of characters for Articles in the app settings but it has no effect on timeline. Is there any way to limit this?
The setting which you've changed in the app (Articles, Posts, etc) controls the preview inside the app only. It relates to browsing pages like Latest, Popular etc.
In the same time Timeline takes the whole text of a post/article/discussion and display it in its own card. Timeline doesn't have any setting to limit the size of the text which was taken from content app. In this case Timeline uses 'See More' to avoid very long texts.
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Hello John Curtis !
The radical and simple solution is to clear the value of the _see_more language key in the Polyglot. In this case, the users will not have the possibility to get the full text from the Timeline preview.
Anton L , LeonidS suggested that remove the _see_more language key from the Polyglot which I did but it didn't help so I added it back to the Polyglot. What else can I do to fix this so I can limit the number of characters to a timeline post. See More doesn't seem to be working.
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Yes Anton L i understand that "The setting which you've changed in the app (Articles, Posts, etc) controls the preview inside the app only. " But it seems that the "See More" for the timeline isn't working as it should for new posts from Articles, Posts and Discussions isn't work on the timeline. How can this be fixed so I can add new Articles, Posts and Discussions without timeline posting the entire post to timeline? If there is a problem with my timeline could you please ask Igor take a look into this? I'm on the cloud so I can't do anything.
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Hello
LeonidS suggested that remove the _see_more language key from the Polyglot which I did but it didn't help so I added it back to the Polyglot. What else can I do to fix this so I can limit the number of characters to a timeline post. See More doesn't seem to be working.
Could you please provide a direct link to a page where the problem can be seen.
'See More' should be automatically added to posts with a lot of content. If you are saying that you have a default (non-modified) version then it should work. -
I'll send you login details in PM. I added a test post to timeline with admin only visibility. You can see it on timeline. I have been on the una cloud since I started with una software. It has not been modified.
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Hello.
I've got your message. Will check your site shortly. -
I investigated the problem and found out that the problem with 'See more' appeared because the following code was added in Lucid template -> Styles -> Custom Styles:
div.bx-tl-item-text div.bx-tl-content {
max-height: none !important;
}
.bx-tl-content.fr-view.bx-tl-overflow {
max-height: none;
border-bottom: 0px !important;
}
div.bx-tl-item-content div.bx-tl-item-text div.bx-tl-content-show-more{
display:none !important;}
When I removed it 'See more'appeared.
But some other customization (in template styles or some code from custom 3d party apps) hides the gradient after final page loading. So, finaly the post looks like this
P.S. When I finished I returned the custom styles back.
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Thank you so very much. I have no idea what it was or where It came from but thank you again. It's working correctly now. :-)
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You are welcome! :)
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Hey Anton L . That did fix the problem on my laptop but still see the same problem on mobile. At least on my Android. Both with or without using the mobile app. You said there was some other code in custom styles that effected "load more". Would you mind pointing that out please? Maybe that has something to do with the problem with the mobile app not showing "load more".
"But some other customization (in template styles or some code from custom 3d party apps) hides the gradient after final page loading. So, finaly the post looks like this "
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Anton L , i found the problem with see more not working on mobile. every thing is working fine now.
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So what was the reason? How did you fix it?
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Was in lucid > custom styles. More code. Same as before. I'm not sure what it was. I removed all from custom styles, checked and it worked. So I replaced all then disabled one at a time till I found it. Thanks for the help.
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