[support] Views on Homepage

[Laura Scott]

Those settings will apply for new posts only. Existing posts will  
need to be edited and resubmitted. There are php scripts to  
facilitate that for you, if you know what you're doing there. Caveat  
emptor.

Laura

On Oct 24, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Ian Elwood wrote:

> I set the view to 'View Type: Teaser list' in the 'page' section of
> 'edit view'.  It doesn't seem to be registering the settings on the  
> page
> at /admin/content/node-settings for some reason.  I can switch  
> those to
> 200 or the max, and it displays the same.
>
> --ian--
>
> Greg Holsclaw wrote:
>> Set the views to 'Teaser  List' in the View Type. If still too  
>> long (or
>> too short), change the teaser trim length at
>> /admin/content/node-settings (Administer >> Content >> Post  
>> Settings) to
>> the desired length ( I believe it is set to 200 characters by  
>> default).
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support- 
>> bounces at drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ian Elwood
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:53 AM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] Views on Homepage
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a two panel homepage, the left panel is drawing from a view  
>> and
>> so is the right.  www.crocodyl.com
>>
>> The panels are pulling from 2 separate page views, each is set to
>> display one content type when it is published and promoted to front
>> page.
>>
>> The problem I am hitting is that the panels are displaying the entire
>> post instead of a clipped version.  I can't seem to figure out which
>> setting to change, I would like it to cut off at about 500 characters
>> and display the next post below, like a blog in each view.
>>
>> It looks great if the new content (Company profiles) is really short,
>> but once more information is entered in, it starts to make the front
>> page really long.
>>
>> --ian--
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