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How to Remove the Description from Plone Pages

This procedure removes the description metadata from the style sheet so it will no longer be displayed when the item is viewed. Descriptions will still be displayed in the search results and by hovering the mouse over the item.

Description Sample

  1. Login as admin
  2. Click on site setup
  3. Click on Zope Management Interface
  4. Click on portal_skins (Controls skin behaviour (search order etc))
  5. Click on plone_content
  6. Click on document_view (View Document)
  7. Click on the Customize button
  8. Scroll down, look for, select and delete these five lines:
            <p class="documentDescription"
    tal:content="here/Description"
    tal:condition="here/Description">
    Description
    </p>
  9. Click on the Save Changes button
  10. Click on the first / in the path at the top of page
  11. Click on the View tab

How to Put the Descriptions back

  1. Login as admin
  2. Click on site setup
  3. Click on Zope Management Interface
  4. Click on portal_skins (Controls skin behaviour (search order etc))
  5. Click on Custom
  6. Click in the checkbox next to document_view
  7. Click the Delete button
  8. Click on the first / in the path at the top of the page
  9. Click on the View tab


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