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buddypress: how do i make the group description excerpt shorter?

I set up a theme in buddypress and i want to have a teaser section for my groups on there. It works fine but i have a problem to shorten the group description... I'm using it like this: <p><a href="<?php bp_group_permalink() ?>"><?php bp_group_name() ?></a></p> <p><?php bp_group_description_excerpt() ?></p> If there´s a very long group-description it crashes my layout. Is it possible (like in wordpress) to make the excerpt shorter...

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Custom API Write a normal API wrapper function for it and place it in your functions.php theme or offer...

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