Dan,
Try something like:
Iif(len('[value]') LTE 25, DE('[value]'), DE(Left('[value]') & '...'))
It's a little complicated, I'm sure, but it should work OK. Let me know if
you have any problems :)
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [plum] Dan's issues
> That worked, Thanks Dave. Are the single quotes always required?
>
> Ideally, what I would like to do is display the value if it is less than
25,
> but if it is greater take the left 25 characters and append three dots:
>
> <cfif len('[value]') LTE 25>[value]<cfelse>left('[value]',25)...</cfif>
>
> Does the formatting component handle something like this?
>
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [plum] Dan's issues
>
>
> > Meh - sorry. Make that "left('[value]', 25)". Double quotes tend to be
> > problematic.
> >
> > Dave
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [plum] Dan's issues
> >
> >
> > > no worky: Invalid CFML construct found on line 1 at column 8.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:09 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [plum] Dan's issues
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dan,
> > > >
> > > > try using formatFunction="left(""[value]"", 25)". Let me know if
this
> > > works
> > > > better for you.
> > > >
> > > > Dave
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Daniel J O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:35 AM
> > > > Subject: RE: [plum] Dan's issues
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Adam,
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thought on the formatting error?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan
> > > > > =================== Previous Message Below ===================
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Adam
> > > > > Churvis
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:06 AM
> > > > > To: Plum Discussion List
> > > > > Subject: [plum] Dan's issues
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan and friends,
> > > > >
> > > > > David and I are going to try to handle the following three issues
> > > tomorrow
> > > > > after training is done:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) The New Module issue (thanks for the DB, Dan -- we'll look at
> it),
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) The formatting error being thrown, and
> > > > >
> > > > > 3) The inability to edit link behavior.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regarding the form-on-a-list issue, you can easily just add
regular
> > HTML
> > > > > form markup after the closing cf_DisplayList Plum custom tag. As
> long
> > > as
> > > > > it's outside DisplayList, you should be okay.
> > > > >
> > > > > Respectfully,
> > > > >
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