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stgray's avatar
stgray
Guide
3 years ago

Limit character count for user's profile biography field

Hi folks,   I am looking to limit the characters that a user can input to the biography section (my settings -> personal -> personal information) in their profile. Is there a setting for this in t...
UI & Design
  • StanGromer's avatar
    StanGromer
    3 years ago

    Pretty sure if you open a support case, they can change the min/max length/size of any attribute. We've had to do things like that w/ usernames where our system required more than the normal limit.

Malcolm-M's avatar
Malcolm-M
Boss

I'll let Khoros answer whether there is a setting on their side, it's not covered in community admin.

If it's to do with displaying the bio you can truncate it in Freemarker for components for example:

 

<#elseif motm.biography?length gt 750>
<p>${utils.html.truncate(750, motm.biography, "...")}</p>

 

 

stgray's avatar
stgray
Guide
3 years ago

Thanks Malcolm, 


I did wonder if users might wonder where the rest of their bio has gone if we truncate it and don't give them a mechanism to view the full thing.
It could be that we're overthinking things, realistically I doubt any of our members will be using the full 10,000 characters available to them...