Page names can be as long or as short as you like I assume your client is referring to the URL? Or do you just want to display a shorter Name in the navigation?

Either way its possible you could create a custom template and then
truncate the page name,


I think one of the helpers also allows you to truncate
I think thats something like

$textHelper->truncate($cobj->getCollectionName(),55);
not sure of the syntax here it may be ->shortenText? its in the pagelist block though

There has to be a Heading dynamically created from the Page Names, which have several long names. Additionally, there is an autonav which dynamically is generated from the Page Names as well, but I don't want the Auto Nav to have a 7-word long link. For example, one page is something like Great Expectations Limited Partnership Program and I would like the menu to simply say "Great Expectations."

A Reg expression may help try this

preg_replace('/([a-zA-Z-]+)\s([a-zA-Z-]+)\s(.*)/i', '$1 $2', '$cobj->getCollectionName()');

This should take the Name and take the first two words

Thanks for trying to help me out here. Unfortunately, I'm barely php literate, so I have no idea how to apply that in order to make it work in the middle of an Auto Nav.

upload the version of the autonav you are using, or post the code, and Ill edit it and paste it back in for you hows that :)

That is incredibly charitable is what that is! Thanks! It's just the basic autonav block from 5.4.1.1, but I've attached it zipped to this message.

Upload into your root folder

root>blocks>autonav>templates

dont put this into the conrete dir

Then where you include you nav select autonav and choose custom template Then choose header Truncate

its not tested but should do the job

Thank you... I'm going to have to try to implement this a little later, but I will let you know how it worked out, so you're not left wondering! This was really kind of you. I really appreciate it.

So, it looks like you put your altered view.php code in a view.txt file. I should copy the contents of that into the view.php file, right?

Sorry been away for the weekend, yes or rename the .txt to .php