News stories with pictures
Carolyn Vincent
I using dotCMS v1.9.3.2. I have a news page set up to display text from a textarea field and it pulls in a picture from a text file which has the path to the image. A lot of CMS systems allow you to use a ‘read more’ link so that you can break up a long news story and display only a portion of the story on the front page. Does dotCMS offer anything like this? Ideally I am trying to show my client the advantage of using the WYSIWYG field for their news stories. This way they can position the picture anywhere they want in the story and add as many as they want. The textarea field forces the user to use strictly text or hardcode the html elements.
I am sure someone is using news on their website where it shows summary information (or only a portion of the body of the news story) and a picture. If anyone is doing this kind of thing can you either share with the group or send me your information off-line? I would also like a url to the type of news stories you are doing. This is what I am trying to http://migrate.asphaltmagazine.com/. However, the individual manipulates the content in the ‘Body which is a WYSIWYG field’, then they copy/paste to the TextArea field which is displayed on the home page. There is also a separate field that they have to pull the image from in order to be displayed on the home page.
This is too many steps and I need to cut some out. They don’t want to give up the flexibility of the WYSIWYG field. Any suggestions?
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Carolyn Vincent, Project Manager
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Maria Ahues Bouza
You can truncate the news story text by using the method:
$UtilMethods.truncatify($content.newsBody,250)
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Maria
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$UtilMethods.prettyShortenString($!{content.summary},94)
It makes sure everything ends on a complete word.
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