Limiting length of full description

[Andrew]

I see in the AUG that you can limit the length of the main description in the layouts.

Is there an easy way to do this for each item that I have already entered in to Catalog?

It seems that you have to alter the ProductLayout when you enter the details and not after?

Is that right?

I do not feel like going through the whole 500 items one by one

Andrew

[gabrielcrowe]

you can wrap the variable in a php function that limits the length of the string.

 $string = "Your long string here";
$max = 100;
substr($string,0,strpos($string," ",$max)); 

when you edit its template, it should reflect in all items that use the template

[jont]

when you edit its template, it should reflect in all items that use the template

Yep - ensure you are using the same layout for the products as once installed it will replicate through all other products using that layout. If you have created a new layout with the code you can set the new layout as the default at the top of the site and this will be used as the default parent layout until you then override.