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Nicklas Lundgren	Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29:50 am Hi, I have a problem that I suppose a few others has hade before. I am using the article class to publish news. However, I would like to limit the size of the Intro xml-textfield to 200 characters. The article class has no property for max textlength. And I cant find any immediate way to customize the OE to do what I want. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? It is of course important that the user gets a message when the limit is reached. All ideas greatly appreciated! Kind regards, Nicklas Lundgren
Marco Zinn	Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:44:23 pm Hm... will be difficult... What do you want to count? The characters in the XML field (including the XML tags)? Or the "rendered" characters? Or the rendered HTML? I suggest, that you don't limit the field for now, but -if you want to make sure, that noone messes your site up with long intros- use a string operator to limit the intro DISPLAY ("shorten") Marco http://www.hyperroad-design.com
Nicklas Lundgren	Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:07:24 pm Hi all, Thanks Marco, for your reply. However, i digged into the code of the OE today, and have managed to add a small counter to the statusbar. I have made a new ini-file to the OE, maxlength.ini in which I define which parentnodes the restiction should apply to. Also I there state the textlength allowed, and wether it should apply to the "intro" or the "body" field. It works! I use textRanges in javascript to prevent the xml-fields from expanding. Regards, Nicklas Lundgren

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Nicklas Lundgren

Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29:50 am

Hi,
I have a problem that I suppose a few others has hade before.

I am using the article class to publish news. However, I would like to limit the size of the Intro xml-textfield to 200 characters.

The article class has no property for max textlength. And I cant find any immediate way to customize the OE to do what I want.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? It is of course important that the user gets a message when the limit is reached.

All ideas greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Nicklas Lundgren

Marco Zinn

Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:44:23 pm

Hm... will be difficult...
What do you want to count? The characters in the XML field (including the XML tags)? Or the "rendered" characters? Or the rendered HTML?
I suggest, that you don't limit the field for now, but -if you want to make sure, that noone messes your site up with long intros- use a string operator to limit the intro DISPLAY ("shorten")

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Nicklas Lundgren

Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:07:24 pm

Hi all,
Thanks Marco, for your reply.

However, i digged into the code of the OE today, and have managed to add a small counter to the statusbar.

I have made a new ini-file to the OE, maxlength.ini in which I define which parentnodes the restiction should apply to. Also I there state the textlength allowed, and wether it should apply to the "intro" or the "body" field.

It works!

I use textRanges in javascript to prevent the xml-fields from expanding.

Regards,
Nicklas Lundgren