Add option to disable truncation of the book label

Created on 17 July 2025, 13 days ago

Problem/Motivation

When working with views on the node page, nodes with titles longer than 30 characters are truncated by default with no means of viewing the full name in the UI.

There's also issues with the previous fix where the newly introduced $truncate parameter wasn't passed recursively or through the BookManager proxy class.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create node with title "nodeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 11"
2. Create node with title "nodeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 12"
3. Add them both to books, then try to reference them. It's hard to distinguish which of the two nodes you are interacting with.

Proposed resolution

The default behaviour should probably to have this off, but as originally proposed in ✨ BookManager::recurseTableOfContents truncate length is hard coded Needs work , we can introduce an option to provide backwards compatibility for sites that would rather have it truncated.

Remaining tasks

Provide issue fork.

User interface changes

New Book setting to disable truncation.

API changes

N/A

Data model changes

🐛 Bug report

Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

codebymikey

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Comments & Activities

Issue created by @codebymikey
@codebymikey opened merge request.
Comment 13 days ago →
codebymikey
The default MR keeps truncation on as part of the post update hook.

Here's a patch that can be applied on top of it that changes the default behaviour to having truncation off by default.
Comment 13 days ago →
codebymikey
Comment 6 days ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Appears to have a test failure. Will also need a 3.0.x branch
@codebymikey opened merge request.
@codebymikey opened merge request.
Comment about 4 hours ago →
codebymikey
Unsure why 2.0.x MRs are failing, but the failed tests are a separate issue as the tests pass locally.

Can confirm the baseline 2.0.x test failure behaviour with https://git.drupalcode.org/project/book/-/merge_requests/105

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