max characthers for title: why not add feature to automatically cut title?

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Guest
24 May 2013 13:02

I am building a "quotes" type with composite title which should be

"author name - first words of the quote"

where

author's name : autocomplete list

author's quote: textarea

I tried to create the composite title for the record and added a value for max title characters... but obviously I get an error when submitting a quote because usally author's name + quote = too many characters

so why not add a feature to automatically cut title after a certain numbers of characters with ellipses (...) instead that giving back an error?

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Sergey

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27 May 2013 04:34

so why not add a feature to automatically cut title after a certain numbers of characters with ellipses (...) instead that giving back an error?

It produce unexpected result. You save and there is no error and then you find that it saved not what you entered. So user have to know that it will not be saved.

Why not to use custom template and no title parameter??

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Guest
27 May 2013 04:41

It produce unexpected result. You save and there is no error and then you find that it saved not what you entered. So user have to know that it will not be saved.

I was thinkingn more about to have the option to set to "cut title" in type settings, not as a default feature

It produce unexpected result. You save and there is no error and then you find that it saved not what you entered. So user have to know that it will not be saved.

Why not to use custom template and no title parameter??

yes I am using composite title right now, but I think that doesn't solve my issue

I am building a "quotes" type

and I want this layout in records list

TITLE: quote author - quote (max 80 characters here)

TEXT: quote (max 300 characters here)

maybe it's just too complicated to achieve

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Sergey

Total posts: 13,748
27 May 2013 04:48

But tittle will have the same as text. Would it be double content? Just show something that is also shown right under the title.

I think custom template is the best option here.

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Guest
27 May 2013 04:52

But tittle will have the same as text. Would it be double content? Just show something that is also shown right under the title.

it will show just the first words

I think custom template is the best option here.

yes the problem is that I have many different types in this section, so for the records list view IA m trying to find the best solution

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