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Hi,

I’ve read the page at

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/pagination_page.html

But how do you set the limit point at which the pages will start to paginate ?

OR do you have to create loads of custom fields called page 1, page 2 etc.,
and then manually split them up?

OR is there a paginate splitter tag you can put in the main article and it will split at those points?

Don’t quite get it.

anyone able to help on this?

hmm no one seems to know.

I found this plug-in
is that the only real way to paginate?

Pagination Spanning

Take a look at this page for the docs.

it doesn’t explain though how you actually set the split in the article ?
how are the pages actually divided up?

multi_field
{multi_field="summary|body|extended"}

The {multi_field=} variable is the core of the ability to span a weblog entry across multiple pages. Within the variable, you specify a pipe-delimited list of the fields. These are the fields that will be used for each individual page. Here is an example of how the feature works:

  1. Let’s say you set up a weblog and it contains (among others) the fields “page1”, “page2”, “page3”, etc.
  2.

    In your “comments” Template, you set up the {multi_field} variable like so:
    {multi_field="page1|page2|page3"}
  3. When you initially visit your comment page for an entry, where you have the {multi_field} tag in your Template, you will see the content of your “page1” field, just as if you had used the regular {page1} variable.
  4. If your entry has content in the “page2” field then you will see a “next page” link.
  5. When you click that link, you’ll see your entry again, but instead of {page1} being displayed, in its place would be {page2}.
  6. This would continue with as many variables/pages as needed.

In other words, you’d have to set up the additional fields, and break down the text yourself. It’s not done automagically.

Thanks for your reply -

you’d have to set up the additional fields, and break down the text yourself. It’s not done automagically

That’s the impression I got ( not explained very clearly though in my opinion)  Not a great system. Some articles could be quite long and it would make things too time consuming. I’ll give the plug-in a try. Thanks.

stevo_s, you control the content length in that case. If you have a long article, it’s not that difficult to figure out where to break it. It can be as easy as putting the whole article in, viewing the single entry via a template, and then figuring out what text needs to go to somewhere else. It’s the same concept as using summary, body, and extended, but with a pagination look and feel.

There are plugins that will display a subset of content, and take you to another page to display everything, but that’s not the same thing as putting in paginated items.

but then you do need to modify your fields settings in admin don’t you?
I’d be afraid they’d paste in the article wrong too and get the article mucked up 😉

I’ll give both ideas a go, but the way I used to use MT and the way that plug-in explains it seems to make sense - just throwing in a paginate break tag where you want the breaks in a given main body text field.

Let me understand, please! I’m going to load several hundreds (!) full length books on my site and make them available for reading by my visitors.. Every book is a single text file, containing about 500-700 pages.  Obviously I should use some kind of pagination system. What the usual practice for this approach in EE? All I can find so far is ridicules advice to manually repaginate original text file, then add several hundreds new fields in weblog and put every page to single field! Well… it’s nice… But I only have two hands and a single life to working this way. Any advises, folks?

Let me understand, please!...

Looks like nobody knows the answer… thank you folks anyway…

There are several ways to handle this, alex.  Either the multi-field pagination as above, or a plugin to automatically paginate after X words/paragraphs. I believe there is also a Pagination plugin that lets you put a placeholder to indicate pagination, which you’d find in the plugin forum.

We did recently have someone import several books using the CSVGrab plugin, but I am not sure how they ended up handling pagination.

Thank you Lisa! I’ll try to find that plugin. Hope it will be included in next version of EE as well. So… it’s just a dream I guess…

Aha, I found it.  Simple Pagination =)

Yahoo! Thank you Lisa!