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Maybe I’m just missing something really easy here, but can’t seem to find a solution

{if summary_word_length}
    {exp:word_limit total="{summary_word_length}"}
{if:else}
    {exp:word_limit total="75"}
{/if}
{body}

summary_word_length is a custom field where a user can define specifically how many words they want the summary to display - I want it to default to 75 if nothing is entered into that field

I’ve tried different conditional placement (no if:else, within the total= field itself, etc) but nothing seems to work - if the user doesn’t enter their word limit it just ends up showing the full body text. Any thoughts?

I’ve never tried this but try in the first condition to set {summary_word_length} as an embedded variable and pass it to an embedded template.

Like this but change the path to be the correct location of the embedded template:

{if summary_word_length}
    {embed="template-group/.embed_custom_summary" total="{summary_word_length}"}
{if:else}
    {exp:word_limit total="75"}
{/if}

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then make a new template
.embed_custom_summary

and use this code in it:

{exp:word_limit total="{embed:total}"}

I tried this and it worked fine:

{if num}

    {exp:word_limit total='{num}'}

        {body}

    {/exp:word_limit}

{if:else}

       {exp:word_limit total='2'}

        {body}

    {/exp:word_limit}

{/if}

hahah well i feel dumb, that longer method works fine… the problem must be something with just trying to display the tag within the conditional.

Thanks!

Hi icd2k3,

Yep you can’t break up tags like that. You have to place the entire tag into the conditionals or it won’t work.

So this won’t work :

{if summary_word_length}
    {exp:word_limit total="{summary_word_length}"}
{if:else}
    {exp:word_limit total="75"}
{/if}

{body}

{/exp:word_limit}

but this will :

{if summary_word_length}

{exp:word_limit total="{summary_word_length}"}
        {body}
{/exp:word_limit}

{if:else}

{exp:word_limit total="75"}
        {body}
{/exp:word_limit}

{/if}

Make sense?

Thanks,

Mark