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Hi Brian,

It’s a good question and I’m sure someone will get back to you. Typical etiquette here states that you need to give 24-48 hours before “bumping” a post here because the site is not large enough to get an “instant answer” in such a short period and nearly everyone here is a volunteer… Have you checked the codex… -if you are a programmer you may be able to glean something out of the code, information, and loops posted there.

https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

Best regards.

It’s probably not a great idea to do something like this via client side scripting especially given the circs for wanting to do this. A filter function ought to be created to handle it.

It’s worthy of looking at with a view to creating a plugin or functions.php function, shouldn’t be too difficult to do and I might have a look later time permitting or hopefully one of the more skilled members with the BP API might suggest an approach.

@mercime Thanks for the heads up

@latenitebooks plugin delayed because of another plugin.
There are non-plugin solutions which would involve manually adding javascript on relevant pages and code within respective forms. Also, If I’m not mistaken, the plugin I mentioned would be good for child themes of bp-default theme but would require some addition of template tags for non-bp-default themes.

@latenitebooks

To get you started, here’s a replacement file for activity/post-form.php with a 500 character textarea limit.
http://pastebin.com/eXuSa4iK

Adjust to taste on line 52. With an if/else conditional, you could set it so different roles have different limits.
Simply create a new post-form.php file in your child theme, copy/paste the contents of the pastebin file and upload to the “activity” folder of your child theme.

Hope it helps!

@thelandman

Thanks for the reminder, but here’s something odd:

I can only get the char limit to work on the first activity item. The script is between the `

@pcwriter, the charlimitinfo will only display on the first activity item because you’ve specified for it to only show up on that specific div with that id. Here’s the solution:

`<textarea id="ac-input-” class=”ac-input” name=”ac_input_” onkeyup=”limitChars(this.form.ac_input_, 500, ‘charlimitinfo-‘)” />`

In each activity item the textarea has a unique name and id applied to it. The javascript function will now be called to each individual activity item.

Hope that helps