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I have a VIEW which pulls on the content field of a type. I specified I want the rewrite rules to trim to 25 characters with an ellipsis.

Unfortunately I also override the template (views-view-unformatted--XXX.tpl.php) and when I echo out the structure of the entire node and entity in template.php I see nothing of a modified field -- only the full data.

How do I adhere to the requirements of the field set in the VIEW?

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I am not exactly sure of what your are looking for. When I need to change the output of a field I usually change the $view->result for the field in hook_views_post_execute.

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  • I have a view in which I specify the content should be of 128 characters in length and "..." added. However when I pull on the $view->result data all I see are the full content not the truncated version I set in views.
    – Alex.Barylski
    May 22, 2014 at 17:57
  • I have noticed that views does not always work as I imagine it when I am setting them up. You should be able to modify $view->result for each item and use strlen, substr and concatenation to achieve the desired effect through code. Maybe something like foreach ($view->result as $result) {if strlen($result > 128{$result = substr($result, 0, 128) . '...';}} It is rough code and syntax may be off especially the substr but it should give you a good idea.
    – sareed
    May 22, 2014 at 18:05
  • I don't want to achieve the result through code tho...I have already (truncate_utf8) but I want the resulting data returned by views to give me the proper field data so a change in the UI doesn't require a change in the code at some later point.
    – Alex.Barylski
    May 22, 2014 at 18:08
  • Ah gotcha. I have similar issues and just go to code. Sorry I could not be more help. Maybe if you can pull the settings in from the view to define the code changes it would work the way you want it to.
    – sareed
    May 22, 2014 at 18:11
  • I dumped the whole damn $view object and the modified/truncated text is in there but its nested so deeply...I was hoping there was an API to help I wasn't aware of...
    – Alex.Barylski
    May 22, 2014 at 18:13

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