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alvinngan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:05 pm 
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I currently have many articles that have a intro paragraph and photo, then a "read-more link".
I now want to disable the read more link, and show the full length articles.

Yes, I know how to disable the "read-more" link. But, when I disable it, the full article does not display. is there an easier way to show the full length article, without going into each article and manually deleting the "read-more" link?
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nhuebner
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:04 pm 
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Assuming you are using a blog layout for your articles, under the Parameters (component) tab in the menu configuration I noticed an item called "for each feed item show." You can set that to full text and see what that does.

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alvinngan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:22 pm 
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oh wait... it didn't work.... i deleted my "thank you note".... ..
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nhuebner
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:08 pm 
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Is this thank you note a part of your articles? If you created a new menu item for this listing and the thank you note is a module, it needs to be assigned to the new menu item.

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alvinngan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:18 pm 
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no i meant, i thought it worked, but it only worked b/c i clicked on the article directly. I was writing YOU a "thank you note".... sorry for the confusion.

Bottom line is, I have a category blog layout with "leading articles" selected to 10-11 articles. I want it to display articles at full length, but I have routinely used the "read-more" link on many articles in the past... If i just choose "hide read-more", all it does is hide it, and doesn't show the full article like I want it to..... any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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nhuebner
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:23 pm 
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Try unhiding the read more text. If the full article text is selected as above, then the whole article would show including the intro text before the read more button.

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alvinngan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:44 pm 
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yah unfortunately i tried that too.. all it does is hides the read more button, but still fails to display the whole article... i read somewhere the "show full text" option you are recommending, is actually for feeds. such as RSS... not the blog itself.
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Per Yngve Berg
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:49 pm 
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You cannot show the Full Article in a Blog Layout. Only the intro is present in the data retrieved from the database.
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alvinngan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:57 pm 
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ok. well the other thing I thought about doing was showing them in "article" display. Then I could have next and previous navigation to link each article in its full length display.
However when I hit "next" or previous it only shows articles within that one category.. Is there a way to use the "next and previous" button to browse through articles by the date they were modified, instead of staying within one category. (i.e. jump between categories?)
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nhuebner
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:59 pm 
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Here is another post with a similar issue. The resolution involved some php coding. viewtopic.php?p=1269827

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alvinngan
PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:57 pm 
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Per Yngve Berg wrote:
You cannot show the Full Article in a Blog Layout. Only the intro is present in the data retrieved from the database.


But i AM able to show an entire article in blog layout. If I type 10 paragraphs, and do not use the "read-more" button, all 10 paragraphs will display on the blog layout.

All I need is a solution to "disable" the read-more function, so that the 100+ articles I have will now show at full length. Unfortunately, when I use the "hide read-more" in the article paramaters, allit does is it just removes the read-more button for users.

So now, I have to manually delete the horizontal "read-more" from each article... there has to be a faster way to do this!
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Per Yngve Berg
PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:55 pm 
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It's not that simple. The text is split into two columns in the database table (introtext and fulltext). If no read more is inserted, the hole article will be put in the introtext column. You have to hack the blog layout or move the fulltext into the introtext.
You can append the fulltext to the intro with this sql:
Code:
update #_content set introtext=concat(introtext, fulltext) where length(`fulltext`)>0 ;
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