Truncating text to a specified character length

There may be times that you want to reduce the character length of a block of text so that you can use it as a summary, or you might have restrictions on the number of characters. A typical example of this is when posting content on social media where you have a fixed character length, such as reposting a Facebook post (which could have over 60,000 characters) to Twitter, which has a maximum character length of 280. You can use the Formatter by Zapier Text action event with the Truncate transform function to reduce the number of characters in a block of text and optionally replace the last three characters with ….

Here are a few examples of when you can use this transform option:

• When you publish a new blog post on WordPress, truncate the blog post content to produce a teaser summary suitable to use on social media.
• When you post a new Facebook post, truncate it to a shorter character length and repost it on Twitter...