Recent Threads, have it display part of the first post

[cdoyle]

Hi,
I searched but didn't see this anywhere, but is it possible with the Recent Thread Module, to have it display part of the first post?

something like
My Thread Title
blah blah blah, my firstpost text is here Read More >>>

Has this been done before?

[CareyCrew]

Just increase the word count and the module will do pretty much what you want.

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by CareyCrew

Just increase the word count and the module will do pretty much what you want.

This doesn't work, the only word count you can increase is the title. The module doesn't currently display anything from the message part of the thread.

[cdoyle]

anyone know how to do it?

[cdoyle]

Are there any other modules out there that will do this?

[Brian]

If you hold your mouse over the thread title then you should see a preview of the first post. If you want that shown on the page without having to hold your mouse over the title then you could edit your 'adv_portal_recthreads' template and change the code in there.

[cdoyle]

What template do I change?

I did a search for adv_portal_recthreads

and 3 come up;
adv_portal_recthreads_exp:
adv_portal_recthreads_exp_head:
adv_portal_recthreads_lean:

any suggestions on what I need to add to the template?

[Morrus]

I can't remember the exact code offhand. In the templates find the thread title. It's called thread[title]. Then move $thread[preview], which is near it, to wherever you want it to be.

For example, in v3 (the version I'm using; I can't speak for v4):

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[preview]"><if condition="$show['gotonewpost']"><strong>$thread[title]</strong> <else />$thread[title]</if></a> <br><small>$thread[preview]</small>

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Morrus

I can't remember the exact code offhand. In the templates find the thread title. It's called thread[title]. Then move $thread[preview], which is near it, to wherever you want it to be.

For example, in v3 (the version I'm using; I can't speak for v4):

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[preview]"><if condition="$show['gotonewpost']"><strong>$thread[title]</strong> <else />$thread[title]</if></a> <br><small>$thread[preview]</small>

Are you saying all I need to do is move $thread[preview]? Seems that anytime I add that to somewhere in my page, it just displays $thread[preview] in that spot.

Is there other code needed to display that variable?

[Brian]

Are you running vB3 or vB4? If you're running vB3 the variable would be $thread[preview], and if you're running vB4 it should be {vb:raw thread.preview}.

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Brian

Are you running vB3 or vB4? If you're running vB3 the variable would be $thread[preview], and if you're running vB4 it should be {vb:raw thread.preview}.

OK, I got it working. I'm using VB4 and this worked {vb:raw thread.preview}

I have another question, is there a way to limit the amount of characters that I display on the homepage?

I don't want to modify the actual hover preview in the forums. Just the text on the portal page.

[Gorgasm]

This is what I was looking for as well. Although, didn't worked for me, or I did it wrong... I'm editing the adv_portal_recthreads_lean, but nothing...

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Gorgasm

This is what I was looking for as well. Although, didn't worked for me, or I did it wrong... I'm editing the adv_portal_recthreads_lean, but nothing...

Were you not able to get the preview to appear at all, or were you not able to reduce the amount of text displayed?

[Gorgasm]

Well, I edit, but I don't have much experience with this Java code thing... Everything is the same, nothing happens with the Lean version. With the Expanded version of the CMS, I do see some text... But I can't controll how much appear, and the BBcodes does't work...