Page List Summaries Configuration Issue

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I have added a page list to my home page where I want to display some news items from elsewhere in the site. I want the headline and the first sentence or so of each news item to be visible. I have tried checking and unchecking the "Truncate Summaries" button and increasing/decreasing the character count - but it will only display the title of the news item - no additional text. Also, should each item I want to have displayed be a separate page or can they be individual "blocks" on a single page? - Thanks.

 
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jordanlev
The page list only shows the "description" property of each page -- not the actual content of the page. If you don't want to enter this description on every page, I wrote a tutorial on how to list actual page content in the page list block, but it requires some coding knowledge -- here it is in case you're interested:
http://c5cookbook.com/recipes/make_a_blog...
(Scroll down to the "Real Content Excerpts" section).

-Jordan