Limit the Abstract to 250 word

[ranjitsaurav]

Hi all,
I am Saurav Ranjit. I need to limit the "Abstract" word to 250 words. Could any one tell me how to limit the "Abstract" word to 250 word .
Saurav Ranjit

[jmacgreg]

Hi Saurav,

You can do this by editing the template that contains the abstract field: templates/presenter/submit/step2.tpl. You'll have to enter your own Javascript stuff in there; also, keep in mind that restricting the abstract to x words rather than x characters might be difficult.

Cheers,
James

[ranjitsaurav]

I have done something like this Please correct me if I am wrong, This code runs smoothly on .html, but not working on .tpl file.

{literal}
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var wordLen = 250; // Maximum word length
function checkWordLen(obj){
var len = obj.value.split(/[\s]+/);
if(len.length > wordLen){
alert("You cannot put more than "+wordLen+" words in this text area.");
obj.oldValue = obj.value!=obj.oldValue?obj.value:obj.oldValue;
obj.value = obj.oldValue?obj.oldValue:"";
return false;
}
return true;
}
//--></script>
{/literal}

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<tr valign="top">
<td width="20%" class="label">{fieldLabel name="abstract" key="paper.abstract" required="true"}</td>
<td width="80%" class="value"><textarea name="abstract[{$formLocale|escape}]" id="abstract" class="textArea" rows="15" cols="60" onKeyUp="checkWordLen(this);">{$abstract[$formLocale]|escape}</textarea></td>
</tr>

[asmecher]

Hi Saurav,

Try disabling the TinyMCE plugin and see if that's interfering. If so, the following thread may be helpful: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=1922

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[ranjitsaurav]

Thanks to all.
I am able to limit the Abstract to 250 words.
I made the following changes in the TinyMCE plugin file "fc-pluginSettings-4-0-TinyMCEPlugin"

<?php return array (
'enabled' => false,
); ?>

Here 'enabled' was entitled to 'true' earlier . I made it 'false' . Now with this change and the previous code that i send earlier i was able to limit the Abstract to 250 word.
The only thing that I am concerned is that will it effect the other features of the "Open Conference System" . Please Let me know.

Saurav Ranjit

[asmecher]

Hi Saurav,

Don't modify the files in the "cache" directory -- your changes will be overwritten. Instead, go to the System Plugins page and enable/disable the plugin there.

Instead of disabling the TinyMCE plugin entirely, another option is to remove support for it from the Abstract field only; do this by modifying plugins/generic/tinymce/TinyMCEPlugin.inc.php and removing the 'abstract' field from the list of supported fields. Alternately, follow the link posted above to find out how other users have added word count support to TinyMCE-enabled fields.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[gonetil]

I have include this feature in OCS when using TinyMCE. It limits to 300 words, but it is easy to change to 250 (or to n words)
I leave you this, hope it helps.
Even though it works fine, it is applied to all conferences in this OCS installation. I would like to write a plugin with this feature, and allow Conf. Managers to set up the preferred length (or zero for unlimited). Does anyone know how should I proceed?

Best wishes

[mcrider]

Hi gonetil,

Implementing that as a plugin would take a good deal of work--I'd suggest looking into the tinyMCE plugin (plugins/generic/tinymce/) and making a simplified version of it. The callback function in TinyMCEPlugin.inc.php injects the included javascript into a page if the user is on a page specificied by the 'switch' statement in the getEnableFileds function. Instead, you could rewrite the callback function to get the abstract length value from either the database (which would involve creating a new conference setup field, which is quite a task in its own right, and would break the self-containedness of the plugin), or hardcode the length in an array in the plugin. Then, you can add that value to the javascript as a PHP variable. The last step would be to ensure that the callback only returns javascript if you are on the author/submit page, so it doesn't get added to every page. Actually getting this to work will require a good deal more effort, but I'll leave that up to you--But let us know if you want any further help.

Also, I recently wrote a guide on writing block plugins. Though this is not a block plugin, some of the instructions would be relevant to writing a generic plugin.

Cheers,
Matt

[gonetil]

Matt,
thanks for your advices. And also for the guide you wrote, I've been looking for this for a while.
I will see what I can do. Best wishes

[marcob]

I also would like the abstract to have a word limit.
I have seen the answers posted, and I could try replacing the step2 file,
as suggested by gonetil, but I'm a bit worried about the effects (untested I assume)
and this is code that I do not personally understand.
Can I ask whether this solution would survive an upgrade of OCS?

Basically I'd like to add my voice to what many others have said already,
a word limit is a very common standard feature of abstract submission, it
really should be part of OCS. If the patch that has been posted works
well is there any chance it will be incorporated in OCS in the future?

Thanks,

cheers, Marco B

[jmacgreg]

Hi all,

Thanks for your input -- I have filed this as a feature request here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4441. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report for further updates, and also please provide any other comments there as well.

Cheers,
James

[igotea]

Hello,

How should i implement the limitation of the abstract in my ocs site (Latest version: 2.1.2 (June 21, 2009)) ?

[jmacgreg]

Hi Igotea,

You can take a look at the patches attached to that Bug entry and try to patch your 2.1.2 system with them, but keep in mind that since they are meant for 2.3 they may not apply cleanly or even work. You could also upgrade to OCS 2.3 which has just been released.

Cheers,
James

[igotea]

Hi, thanks for the suggestions.

I have already tried to apply the patch and is not working, so i have to rewrite the files affected by the patch. Then I have applied the method sugested here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3931#p15179 and is working but is not so elegant.

No, if you say that the new version is already received, i will try to update. I have seen from the patch that i have applied, that at the configuration of conference tracks, it is possible to limit the abstract.

Best regards,

[igotea]

Hi,

Now I'm trying to update to OCS 2.3

If I run

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php tools/upgrade.php patch

the response is:

Code version: 2.1.2.0
Database version: 2.1.2.1
Latest version: 2.3.0.0
Database version is newer than code version!

I have downloaded the patch: patch from OCS 2.1.2-1 http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/download/patch/ocs-2.1.2-1_to_2.3.patch.gz then run:

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patch -p1 < ocs-2.1.2-1_to_2.3.patch

The response is:

The next patch would create the file classes/admin/form/ConferenceSiteSettingsForm.inc.php,
which already exists! Assume -R? [n]

What does it mean Assume -R?
 [n] i suppose is No

It is the corect patch that I try to apply ?