Input form - avoiding special characters in text field

[#1]

Hi Team,

In a custom input form, we have a text field. Here we need to avoid few special characters like @ $ % etc.,

How can i make it possible?

For example,

<input xpath="@textField"/>

Thanks and regards,

ParthaSarathy.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

You can use Regex for this. 

In your form use Leave tag like below and use soapcall tag and specify new function which you will create in JavaScript file. 

<leave>

<soapCall name="functionName" service ="">

<param exprIn="[give full path of field you want to check]" type="string"/>

</leave>

Make sure : In Javascript file , function you define have syntax like below 

namespace_schema_fucntionName(test)

{

var res= test.match(); // Use regex here to find special character

if(res==null)

{

 alert("special character found")

}

}

Thanks,

Kapil

[Partha18]

Hi,

You can check on form save/close with:

<check expr="@textField not like '%@%' and ..."><error>Invalid character</error></check>

To replace *all* special characters with '_', at a schema level, use dataPolicy="identifier" on the attribute- no form work needed.

Thanks,

-Jon

[Partha18]

Hi @wodnicki, 'not like' is not working. It throws a popup 'the operator 'not like' is not supported in the internal expression language'