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First n characters

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Community Member, 13 Posts

14 September 2014 at 12:42am

How i can get first n characters in template, thank you

Forum Moderator, 1899 Posts

14 September 2014 at 8:08pm

Assuming this is from a DB text or HTML field...

$MyTextField.Summary(50)

Community Member, 13 Posts

14 September 2014 at 9:41pm

But for $Title?