profile field About You: available in the post template?

[sifuhall]

I would like to add the first 200 or so characters from the post author's profile field About You in the post.

Is this variable available in the post template and if so what is the var?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Appearance -> Templates -> message

You can use this variable:

{$message.about}

And you can use this to trim it to 200 characters:

{xen:helper snippet, $message.about, 200}

The same thing works in the post template, but you would use "$post" in place of "$message".

 

[Forsaken]

Admin CP -> Appearance -> Templates -> message

You can use this variable:

{$message.about}

And you can use this to trim it to 200 characters:

{xen:helper snippet, $message.about, 200}

The same thing works in the post template, but you would use "$post" in place of "$message".

Jake, do you know if this would work with XenPorta's article pages as they're based off of threads, or would I need to have it added by an add-on to do this?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Jake, do you know if this would work with XenPorta's article pages as they're based off of threads, or would I need to have it added by an add-on to do this?

In my testing the profile fields are not available in those XenPorta templates. Custom code is required.

 

[Forsaken]

In my testing the profile fields are not available in those XenPorta templates. Custom code is required.

Thought so .