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domladden
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10 years ago

Word Count component

Hi, I need to create a quick little component that will pull the word count from my articles.   I've checked the community here and can't find much more than a suggestion for a product idea that wa...
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domladden
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Hi, yes this works great, thanks.

 

If anyone else is interested, this is the component I made:

 

      <#assign msg_id_check = page.context.message.uniqueId />
      <#assign msg_id_check2 = msg_id_check?string>


<#assign messagebody = rest("messages/id/${msg_id_check2}/body").value />



<#assign messagebody2 = messagebody?replace("</?[^>]*(>|$)|&(nbsp;?|#?[0-9A-Za-z]*$)", " ", "r")?replace("\\s+", " ", "r") />


<#assign messagebody3 = messagebody2?trim?split(" ")?size />


<p>${messagebody3}</p>

I then applied some CSS to the <p> tag to pretty much hide the word count so only I can see it but you should be pretty set to go.

 

Thanks again,

 

Dom

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phani
Advisor
10 years ago

Hi domladden,

 

Use utils.html.stripper context object to strip elements except content. Then you can count the words from body.

 

Regards,

Phani