How to limit characters to be shared to twitter from WinJS app
NickName:Ibanez Ask DateTime:2014-05-13T22:46:59

How to limit characters to be shared to twitter from WinJS app

I have created a Windows 8.1 application in WinJS and I have some HTML content that I am sharing.

I have implemented sharing as per the MS sample app (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Sharing-Content-Source-App-d9bffd84)

The sharing works well, except if I share to the official Twitter app.

The problem is that it inserts the entire article (500 characters or more) into the text area of the Twitter flyout.

Is there anyway to limit the characters when the user chooses to share to Twitter?

The problem can be replicated by installing the MS share example app, selecting "Share HTML content" and selecting the Twitter app from the share flyout (The Twitter app needs to be installed on your PC of coarse).

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Answers
sebagomez 2014-05-13T16:29:07

The problem is that you don't know where your users will share to... you can tell the share charm what you want to share and you could shorten the text to 140 characters.\n\nUsing the Windows.ApplicationModel.DataTransfer.DataTransferManager.getForCurrentView().ondatarequested event you can set to the argument the data you want to share, but as I said, if you want to trim the message you are sharing, you're doing it for every 'shareable' app. If the user then picks Twitter or OneNote is something you wouldn't know.",

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