Can i display only certain number of character in a cells of a table?

[royimad]

Hello I'm using sideview table and i need to know id i can limit the display of a cells for a certain number of characters?

Code:

<!--  EXAMPLE BEGIN  -->
<module name="Search" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" autoRun="True">
  <param name="search">
  index=_internal source="*metrics.log" group="per_sourcetype_thruput" | stats avg(eps) by series | sort - avg(eps)
  </param>
  <param name="earliest">-12h</param>
  <module name="Pager">
    <param name="count">5</param>
    <module name="Table">
      <module name="HTML">
        <param name="html"><![CDATA[
          <h2>Showing eps over time for sourcetype $row.fields.series$</h2>
        ]]></param>
      </module>
      <module name="Search">
        <param name="search">
          index=_internal source="*metrics.log" group="per_sourcetype_thruput" $row.searchTerms$ | timechart max(eps) avg(eps) min(eps)
        </param>
        <param name="earliest">-12h</param>
        <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
          <param name="charting.chart">line</param>
          <param name="charting.chart.nullValueMode">zero</param>
          <module name="FlashChart"/>
        </module>
      </module>
    </module>
  </module>
</module>
<!--  EXAMPLE END  -->

[sowings · Accepted solution]

In the past I've done this with a macro, that took the input string and a number as an argument. It truncated the string to "length minus three" and replaced that with "...", if the string was over that length. Otherwise, the string was left alone.