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Umbraco data type which wraps existing text data type controls and shows text counts and limits while you type.

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codery.textcount's Introduction

Codery.TextCount

An Umbraco data type which wraps existing text data type controls and shows text counts and limits while you type.

How to use it

Create a new data type using the 'Text Count' property editor.

Next up, choose your options:

Data Type: choose the existing text-based data type that you want to add a counter to (supported types: Textstring, Textarea, RTE, Markdown and Repeatable Textstring).
Characters or Word: choose whether the counter should count individual characters or whole words.
Limit: set the number of characters or words you want to be the limit (leave empty if there is no limit).
Limit Type: choose whether the limit is a warning (but allows users to add more), a hard warning (preventing users to save more than the specified limit) or no limit (the text counter just acts as a guide).

Save it, add it to a document type and your editors will now see the text counter displayed next to the input field.

How to install it

The package can be installed through NuGet:

Install-Package Codery.TextCount

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TextCount RTEs do not work with macros

Hi,

The TextCount RTE macros don't display correctly. Instead of showing the macro, it just shows the bolded text "Macro Alias: {MacroName}".

Wrapping the output with umbraco.library.RenderMacro does not fix the problem either.

We tested this side by side with a normal RTE and a TextCount RTE. The normal RTE displays the macro correctly on the front end. The TextCount RTE does not display the macro correctly on the front end (although it does display it correctly in the umbraco admin).

Configuration stores INT id for DataType- which causes issue on Umbraco Cloud/Deploy transfer

@tomvanenckevort Thanks for your help with the various issues I have been experiencing. Once I had it working beautifully on my local site, I pushed it to my Umbraco Cloud environment, and it broke 😢.

It was trying to "wrap" the wrong DataType on the Cloud environment. I can see that the generated UDA file is storing an INT for the datatype id, whereas a GUID would be better for Cloud/Deploy purposes, since INT Ids vary between environments, but GUIDs do not.:

Feature: Any plans to make this compatible with version 9?

Would love to have this feature in v9!

Characters not counted in RTE for Umbraco 8.13.0

I was really excited to find this lovely package, since it is providing the functionality I was looking for, unfortunately, the counter doesn't seem to be working, at least in RTEs in Umbraco 8.13.0:

This does work for a basic textstring:

I'm not sure if the structure of the RTE changed since your last updated for Umbraco 8.2...
This is the back-office HTML:

Suggestion - Remove additional dependencies from NuGet package

Installing via NuGet I was a bit dismayed to see this package included an installation of UmbracoCMS. I don't think this is necessary. If you were using it for development, you can exclude it from the compiled NuGet package by updating your csproj file with the PrivateAssets="All" attribute :

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="UmbracoCms.Core" Version="8.13.0" PrivateAssets="All" />
    <PackageReference Include="UmbracoCms.Web" Version="8.13.0" PrivateAssets="All" />
  </ItemGroup>

This will keep it from installing those packages when the end user installs your package.

TextCount affects link picker fields

When adding the TextCount type to an RTE it also affects the text fields in the link picker that opens from the RTE:

Repeatable Textstrings not saving

When using TextCount with a Repeatable Textstrings data type, you can add new items to the list and click Save (or Save & Publish), but then adding new items does not seem to work. It still display the items, but doesn't show the character count anymore and when saving and refreshing the page, the items added after the first save have disappeared.

Reported with TextCount v1.0.15 & Umbraco v7.14.

PropertyValueConverter returns "object"

Hi @tomvanenckevort 👋🏻

I use the API version of ModelsBuilder (latest - "Umbraco.ModelsBuilder 8.1.6"), and noticed that a TextCount wrapped RTE property is returning data as "object":

In the interface for the composition:

In the class for a content type using that composition:

I see there is a PropertyValueConverter in the package, so I'm not sure why this is the result...