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Can you display just the first paragraph of article?

  • October 13, 2016
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I have a customized Help Center home page that displays any currently-promoted articles of a particular section (current issues) over at the right side of the page, if any. 

I have the body of the article displayed but it would be nice if I could select only the first paragraph... or even better, the first 200 characters, say, and append an ellipsis.

I don't see anything in the Help Center Templating Language Reference to suggest this is possible... does anyone know?

Thanks!

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    • Carsten12
    • October 14, 2016

    Hi Alan

    Depending on your template you could use something like:

    {{excerpt article.body characters=200}}

    That will give you only the first 200 characters of the article body...

    Its mentioned here under the Helpers section: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205753348-Using-the-Help-Center-templating-language 

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