I have a feed to a blog (set up through feed aggregator) that appears to be working EXCEPT for the fact it does not display any teaser whatsoever (I can set the teaser trimming to any number of characters I want, certainly, but the teaser just fails to exist!).

Any ideas? I'm primarily a css person, but I'm learning php and javascript slowly. Any help would be much appreciated.

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mikepmunroe’s picture

mikepmunroe commented

I took a peak at the code in aggregator.processor.inc where this form is defined. From what I can see there is no function defined to take an action on a teaser setting. There is a function to set the values in the teaser drop down, but no function to take any action on that teaser setting.

You will also notice that if you change the setting, it does not stick. For example, if you change the setting to 200 characters, click the 'Save Configuration' button, the teaser drop down will return to the default selection of 600 characters. That would make sense, since it seems the new selected value is not getting saved anywhere for operating on.

kaylsbeth’s picture

kaylsbeth commented

Yeah, I noticed that as well. I was able to get the amount to stick thanks to information in a similar issue, but I don't know enough about working in the .inc thread to make any sort of edit that would actually make the teaser appear. So it knows I'm changing the number of characters, but it still has no idea where those characters are supposed to come from. Or so I understand.

dcam’s picture

dcam commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The second issue mentioned in #1 was fixed in #1045786: Length of Trimmed Description.

As for the original issue, it works as designed, although I'll freely admit that it's not clear what this setting does. To quote myself from #2283877: Remove or use Aggregator's teaser_length setting:

In D7, the setting only changes the item description length in Aggregator's RSS view and then only if you have the system RSS Publishing feed content setting set to Titles plus teaser.

So if you're hoping it will change the description length on feed page views, you'll be disappointed. Frankly, I would just use Views to build the page display instead. It has decent integration with Aggregator feed items. If you're displaying fields then you can adjust the description length easily.