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Hi there,

I have a website that, amongst other things, promotes some training courses. One of the key fields for this particular weblog is the one for dates. It is a Multi-text field with two columns (location and date).

So periodically I have to go in an edit the training course pages to add new dates and locations as they are scheduled.

Currently, the live training page lists all the courses in a table, with the course code in column 1, title in column 2, and then all the dates in column 3.

<table id="mytable" cellspacing="0" summary="Training Course Schedule">

   <caption>Course Summaries - click course title for more information</caption>

   <tr>
      <th scope="col" abbr="Code" class="code">ID</th>
      <th scope="col" abbr="Title" class="tctitle">Course Title</th>
      <th scope="col" abbr="Date" class="tcdate">Dates</th>
   </tr>
 
   {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" orderby="course_code" sort="asc"}

      <tr>
         <td class="right">{course_code}</td>
         <td class="title"><a href="http://{path=" title="View {title} course details">{title}</a></td>

         {if course_dates!=""}
            <td>{course_dates}{col_2}
{/course_dates}</td>
            {if:else}
                <td>No Dates</td>
            {/if}
      </tr>

   {/exp:weblog:entries}

</table>

All this works fine, although - as we’ve started offering more dates for the more popular courses, it’s starting to look a bit long and untidy for these entries.

I was wondering, is it possible to display only one entry of this course_date {col_2} value?

I should add that this website was not built by me, and so none of this code is mine, and so although I follow most of it (kind of) - my attempts to display only the first date for a course has not been very successful this far - hence my call for help.

Cheers, Jay

Are you referring to Mark Huot’s multi text?
Your best bet is to do some kind of post processing on course_date {col_2}, search devot-ee for EE1 plugins that truncate html or have string functions.
Another option, but I’m not sure if that’s possible, would be to convert the multi text field to a matrix http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix field, then you limit the amount of columns you show.