Sharepoint Blog/ how to set a "read more" link to limit the lines of text on the posting?

Question

Hi folks,
I am  looking for the switch to limit the lines of text showing on a blog post, and to have a "read more", or "more" link to the category. Can you advise me? Thank you in advance, Gary

Answer 1

Hi,

I think you can limit the text in a post using SharePoint Designer:

1.     Open the blog site in SPD and open the default.aspx page;

2.     Locate the post list view, and "Convert to XSLT Data View";

3.     Look for the body text, you will see the code like this: <xsl:value-of select="@Body"/>;

4.     Replace the code to this <xsl:value-of select="substring(@Body,1,62+m)"/> (“m” is the count of the characters you want to display in the post). If the code like this <xsl:value-of select="substring(@Body,1,72)"/> , it will display 10 characters in the default page.

If you want to set “read more” link, I think you should use JavaScript to set the button.

Hope it helps.

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Xue-Mei Chang

Answer 2

Hi Gary!

This is a great post on how to achieve this, and also how to avoid that half words are displayed etc: http://mdasblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/displaying-the-first-n-words-of-a-long-text-column-with-xsl/

Good luck!
Jenny