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Mysticales · #**495** 08-18-2006, 05:07 AM

Question, I wanna use this on my forums to show our sites news. However, I only want it to display 3 summary items. (Which thats no problem)

HOWEVER, I only want it to display like a partial news of the article. Like if I have it set to show 3 news articles that were posted, I only want the summery of each article to only show maybe 200 chars. (Kinda like the Maximum length thing)

However.. if I do that... it doesnt seem to work fully.... It seems to apply the maximum length thing to all 3 articles as if it was part of one limit.

I want it where I can show the latest 3 article news posted. Then a short summary of whats included in each article, then it would cut the "full" news out and say [More] which would link it to the full article.

Right now, if I set the Maximum length it seems to give me the [More] and cut off the article, however.. its applying it wrong it seems.. as the 1 article shows fine, but 2nd one would be even less.. and 3rd one would have nothing to show as a preview of the news at all.

If im making sense, is there a idea for this? I just want to show a preview of the news article posted, have the 3 latest articles shown a summary of. Then it would just in that summary preview link to the main full article, can this be done?

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