Using validation pattern to control visibility

[Matt_FTW]

Hi all, hoping you can help me again with a query. I'm using LiveCycle Designer ES2.

I have a text field on my form - let's say Account Number -  that has a validation pattern of text{AA999}|text{99999}  i.e it must be a 5 character string, either two letters and three numbers or 5 numbers. This is set in the Validation Pattern GUI, not in script.

What I'd like to do is control the visibility of another field - let's say Account Name - based on whether Account Number validates correctly or not. I know how to write the script to control the visibility, but not sure what test to do for it. Something like...

if (<<how do I write the test to see if it validated correctly?>> == true)

{

AccountName.visibility = "visible";

}

else

{

AccountName.visibility = "hidden";

}

Can anyone guide me as to how to do this?

Thanks

Matt

[_Nith_]

Using Regular Expressions is the best approach for this requirement. But you need to write a few lines of code in javascript.

Nith

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

if you call the validate method of the object it will return a true or false based on whether teh validation passed or failed.

So your code would look something like this:

if (fieldName.execValidate() == true)

{

AccountName.visibility = "visible";

}

else

{

AccountName.visibility = "hidden";

}

[_Nith_]

Interesting and pretty simple solution !

Thanks Paul.

[Matt_FTW]

Hi both,

Thanks for your responses - Nith yes I did think about using regular expressions but I wasn't sure of the syntax needed to check for my requirements, hence why I used the pattern editor.

Paul - thanks for your help - this works perfectly.

Matt