In a perfect world, I would like to try to use the intro-text in a separate data entry field from the body text.

Can K2 separate intro text from body text fields? Somehow I thought I had seen this recently but not remembering if that was core Joomla or my JCE editor or part of K2.

Can I limit the number of characters in the introtext of K2 Items when they are part of a menu linking to multiple categories:

I found this is very easy to do with any one, singular category. But, I have not figured out how to do it with multiple category menu items:

Here is a single category page where I have limited the introtext to 150 characters:
life.drcarney.com/activities/engine-2-medical-director/2011-september-immersion

Here is a multi-category menu item where I have not been able to figure out how to limit the amount of characters in the introtext:
life.drcarney.com/activities/engine-2-medical-director

Any pointers will be very much appreciated!

Thank you, Sean Carney

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Hi. Regarding the seperation of introtext and fulltext K2 has an option for that. You can find it under K2 Parameters. Regarding the introtext word limit, it is not supported on multiple categories but you may want to take a look at getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/13197-IntroText-words-limit-not-working-while-selecting

Thank you for the reply. i finally changed all my menu items to no longer use multi-category and so I have the control I need within the category itself. The only place I have problems is the home page because i try to show something from everywhere but I may need to get a module from somebody to do that. Thank YOU FOR THE LINK YOU PROVIDED.

Sean

You can always use word limit functionality in your template by using something like that :

This will apply a 10 word limit to the introtext. So if you have a template override for the frontpage you can use a little code to achieve what you want.

@Lefteris - Nice trick. is there a listing of functions that can be used in overrides somewhere or should i just read the code?

Hi Lefteris i tried your code to my category_item.php template override and did not work, so i made this change

<?php if($this->item->params->get('catItemIntroText')): ?>
	  <!-- Item introtext -->
	  <div class="catItemIntroText">
	  	<?php echo $this->item->introtext; ?>
	  </div>
	  <?php endif; ?>

if (modK2ToolsHelper::hasChildren($row->id))

$catTitleLimit = 10;
if(strlen($row->name > $catTitleLimit)) $row->name = substr($row->name,0,$catTitleLimit).'...';