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Skip part of the page title - feature suggestion

NetHawk
Minted
Posted on Jan 15, '08 at 05:04 am

I usually put the company name in the title tag of pages I do for my clients. So the page title might read something like this:

ELCO Heating Solutions - Contact

or

Nemetschek Fides & Partner | Company

I regard this as good practice when the user bookmarks a page, so she/he can see from which company the page was.

In all the mint reports that’s not so great. It uses up so much line space, that often the part of the page title that distinguishes the pages from each other is cut off.

The solution?

Either defining a “skip this substring of a page title” or a “show only characters from-to” could do the job. To reduce the impact in performance, this could be done on the client side, just when the admin watches Mint. So all the database inserts and updates would not need to do any additional work.

What do others think about this? Is it completely insane? Or would this be helpful for you too?

Sam Brown
Third-Party Pepper Developer
Posted on Jan 15, '08 at 06:38 am

Hi NetHawk, this has been possible since the early days of Mint and I have documented it again for posterity. See Overriding Page Titles.

NetHawk
Minted
Posted on Jan 16, '08 at 03:37 am

Hi Sam, thanks a lot, I really don’t know how I could have missed that!

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