Guide to Profitable Sales
Smart Trim Module
Drupal core already contains a basic text trim capability. What that means is that you might have a bunch of articles on various subjects that you have tagged or associated with taxomony terms and want to present to users as a summary highlights list. You create a view of that list where you only want to present the title and several lines from the start of each article to users to skim and select which they want to “Read More” about. Getting to that summary text is trimming.
The trim capability in Drupal core is pretty basic. What if you wanted to trim by ‘word count’ instead of ‘character count’ so the summary text users see don’t have partial words? What if you want to say “Full Article Here” instead of “Read More” as the prompt to open the full article? These are a bunch of other more powerful feature options can be added by installing the Smart Trim Module.
The Module
The Smart Trim module installs in the usual way with composer and is enabled with drush.
composer require drupal/smart_trim
drush en smart_trim
Using Smart Trim
One of the real wizards of getting the most out of Drupal through sharing summary video’s on important contributed modules is Ivan Zugec who runs a company called WebWash and he does a nice job of further explaining Smart Trim
In Other Words Module
List formating is another type of edit customization that you might need. Instead of thinking about carving a text field into slices that display it more optimally, there are times when you have a set of items that make up a list which you want presentation control over. An example of this might be having a number of authors associated with some published content. Do you dump them in a stack, on a line, do you put commas between them, include the word ‘and’ between the next to the last and the last one, etc? There is whole range of list presentation control with this extra module that brings more natureal display of lists.
You want the control of the In Other Words Module.