How to set character limits

Our new character limits feature provides the following:

• setting the number of characters in the title and summary fields
• setting the content formats the limits apply to
• a display showing the number of characters remaining (it's not a hard limit, you can go over it if you wish)

This is an optional part of LGD, so please ask your developer to install it.

How to use it

• Once installed, go to Configuration > LocalGov character counter (or /admin/config/content/localgov-char-count on your site)
• Edit the title length and summary length fields as you wish
• Scroll down and select the fields you would like the limits to apply to
• Click 'Apply configuration changes' at the foot of the page when you're done

On content formats where the limits are enabled, you'll see a display like this.

It's possible to edit how this information is displayed - go back to the config page to change it.