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Script to change user entered values to uppercase letters in Adaptive Forms

  • June 2, 2022
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Hello all! I'm building adaptive forms in AEM and I need assistance with a rule or script to force user entered data from a text field to upper case letters. In Designer we used this JS: xfa.event.change=xfa.event.change.toUpperCase(); Wondering how to get this same functionality into the Adaptive side of forms.

thanks!

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Best answer by nowackem

@mayank_gandhi I got this figured out! Thank you so much for trying to help. Here is what worked: 

Event: Value Commit 

Code Editor: this.value=this.value.toUpperCase()

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Mayank_Gandhi
Adobe Employee
Mayank_GandhiAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
June 3, 2022

@nowackem XFA events are not for adaptive form. You can take 2 route:

 

1. you can use css:

to make a block of text have all capital letters, use text-transform: uppercase in your CSS selector. The text-transform property accepts three possible values: uppercase: Sets each word to uppercase in a text element.

 

2. JS:

var text = "Hello World!";
var result = text.toUpperCase();

 

CSS need to go in style editor or client libs and js will go in code editor. The event would be value commit,

 

    nowackem
    nowackemAuthor
    Level 5
    June 3, 2022

    @mayank_gandhi Thank you for your reply. I'm looking to use the JS option. I implemented the provided script but I'm not able to make it work. I do have the event set as Value Commit. Can you help me troubleshoot to figure out what I'm missing? Please let me know if you need other info from me to help me solve this. I appreciate it.

      Mayank_Gandhi
      Adobe Employee
      Mayank_GandhiAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      June 3, 2022

      @nowackem send me your test form pls. 

        nowackem
        nowackemAuthorAccepted solution
        Level 5
        June 3, 2022

        @mayank_gandhi I got this figured out! Thank you so much for trying to help. Here is what worked: 

        Event: Value Commit 

        Code Editor: this.value=this.value.toUpperCase()

          IainClucas
          IainClucas
          Level 3
          April 18, 2023

          This is just the type of feature in needing. Though I'm wondering how to make this at the component level. Say we a dedicated competent for a particular reference number and that we wanted to always need it to be uppercase.

          Guessing we could at your rule into the rule script mode of the content.XML for the component.

           

          Or is there a better option ?

            IainClucas
            IainClucas
            Level 3
            April 19, 2023

            The approach we are testing today is using a guideBridge event handler.

             

            guideBridge.on("elementValueChanged" , function(event, payload) { var component = payload.target; // Field whose value has changed if (component.cssClassName.includes("uppercase")) { var uValue = payload.newText.toUpperCase(); guideBridge.setProperty([component.somExpression], "value", [uValue]); } })
             
            On the individual component we can set the uppercase css class, or for components that always required uppercase we can set using the cssClassName in the  cq:template.

            We are going to test this with our users soon.
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