How to show more "short description" contents in the category view?

[DH]

As question in the title, I realize that it's only 43 characristics limited in the category list of every item. Since I made it as list view, so I wish the visitors could see more details before they click into the product details.
Where could I expend the limit to be suppose 120 characteristics or something?

God bless you, my mentor!

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[bytelord]

Hello,

You should edit your category/default.php located under your custom template (i suppose you are using template overrides cause as you said you have create it as list).
So in the vm default category/tmpl/default.php template around line 253 you will find the following code:

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<?php // Product Short Description
     if(!empty($product->product_s_desc)) { ?>
<p class="product_s_desc">
<?php echo shopFunctionsF::limitStringByWord($product->product_s_desc, 40, '...') ?>
</p>
<?php } ?>

As you can see there is the usage of function limitStringByWord that limit the characters to 40, so you could change that "40" to "120".

In case you are not using template overrides the original template file is located under your_joomla_folder\components\com_virtuemart\views\category\tmpl\default.php
Copy that file under your_joomla_folder\templates\your_joomla_template\html\com_virtuemart\category\default.php and edit as you wish.

More information about template overrides you find here: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=98505.0 and here http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/wiki/Hints_for_the_use_of_the_template_system


Hope it helps you out.


Regards

[DH]

This works, and I done a few more jobs through your method! Thank you so much!~~~