[ic] limit text output on table query
Philip S. Hempel
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 4 00:38:02 2002
I looked through the mail list and docs and
I seem to not find anything on how to
limit text from a query on a table
I would like to have is the ability to display
a few lines (characters) from our comment table
something like a teaser of sorts without having to
modify anything for the item.
What I have done is created a few pages that
pull out particular products and spit them out
onto a page, I want to place a small portion of it
into the area below the product ID.
My problem is that the content for our comments is
enormous and over takes the blocks, I have tried setting
the table height and that becomes a problem since some
other info then gets lost.
And also is there some widget I can use to place into
each product description that would put a page break
i.e.
IMAGE
" ... this product has already 40 lines of data
some more info and alot more"
[more info] <--- this produces a page break to follow next
IMAGE
"more data about this product lots more data
another 400 lines of data"
This is an idea I have seen with ezpublish at
developer.ez.no that peforms the same operation
the link to this is at
http://www.blossomland.com/bl/beeswaxcandles/beeswax.html
I am not sure if it would help but I can make the
source available as well.
If anyone has some ideas please let me know.
btw I am using table organize to do this with a loop on the products.
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Philip S. Hempel