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Faloude

Community Member, 55 Posts

7 February 2017 at 8:18am

Edited: 07/02/2017 8:45am

I use the ->Summary() method to get a summary from a DBField object, but I'm not really happy with the generated summaries. The main reason being that it seems to only read <p>'s and skips for example headings (<h1>), sometimes resulting in a poorly representative summary and sometimes just a blank field (eg when the text only holds a html heading).

What would be a simple fix for a better summary? Perhaps someone has a custom summary method laying around.