[support] Views on Homepage

[Ian Elwood]

Caveat emptor indeed, I am slightly noobish and scared of PHP still.  Is 
a workaround to edit something small, like adding a single space, then 
submitting it again?  Or do I have to add a whole new node to check the 
changes?

--ian--

Laura Scott wrote:
> 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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