Creating a "Read More.." link

Squiz Matrix Support
1

Hi guys,


I've done a bit of searching through the forums but have had no luck finding what I was after so here I am.



I have created an asset listing of articles but instead of displaying the whole article or just the article title I want to have the following format:



ARTICLE TITLE



Introduction text (fist paragraph of article for example)



READ MORE…



Is there an easier way to do this instead of using metadata?



Any help or advice would be appreciated.



Cheers,



Paul

2

Keyword modifiers provide you with the ability to modify the output of an asset keyword, I think max words will be the one you are looking for.


Type format bodycopy for your asset listing might look something like this:

    
    

    %asset_name%
    
%asset_contents^maxwords:100%

    Read more...


Read more about [url=http://manuals.matrix.squiz.net/keyword-replacements/chapters/keyword-modifiers]keyword modifiers[/url] in the manual site.
3

Thanks for the response Anthony.


It appears that the modifier %asset_contents^maxwords:100% does not work for us. I can get the ^maxwords to work on titles but not content? any ideas?



We are running V3.24.4 so it looks like it should work. All that we get is a blank area.



Cheers,



Paul

4

This was fixed in 3.26.5+, so other than upgrading your choices would be limited to either copying that information you want to appear into a metadata field manually and displaying that, or using javascript to extract the maximum words (obviously neither is ideal, but I can't think of a better way).