I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do but this thread reference came to mind:
Limiting character display in short/long mod
Thread reference: http://gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum12/HTML/002783.html
Topic: short/long display mod
Scouser - April 26, 2000
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Question:
Is there someway of cutting descriptions that are shown in the short display to say 50 letters.
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Response:
If you want just 50 characters of a field to show in the short display,
after: my (%rec) = @_;
add code:
if (length($rec{'Description'}) >50) {
$rec{'Description'} = substr($rec{'Description'},0,50);
$rec{'Description'} .= "...";
}
I wasn't clear on whether you were just trying to limit the amount of information in the display or not??
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