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How to force alpha or numeric inside text fields - LiveCycle Designer 9.0

  • November 9, 2010
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I am creating a form that requires City, State and Zip.  I need to make sure that users do not put City, State and Zip into the City field; which someone so nicely pointed out to me as a problem with the form.  Anyway, what I am looking for is a way to force the user to only be able to enter alpha characters into the City text field.  I had glanced at the "Validation Patterns" OOTB functionality but I could not find anything listed that would complete the requirement.


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    Best answer by radzmar

    You can use regular expressions in the change:event of the textfield to limit the characters that can be typed in.

    Will allow only digits and the characters A-Z and a-z

    if (xfa.event.newText.match(/[^A-Za-z0-9]/))      

    {

    xfa.event.change = "";

    }

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    Radhika_Magaji
    New Participant
    May 5, 2015

    Hey,

    How do i avoid space as my first character? I'd want to restrict user from entering space as my first charcter in a text field.

    Thanks,

    Radhika

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    rickstsx04
    New Participant
    November 20, 2014

    this code won't work with my dynamic xml form. Is there a different code to make this work for dynamic xml forms? This works only if my form is saved as a static pdf.

    radzmar
    radzmar
    New Participant
    November 10, 2010

    Adding a space to the regualar expression will do the trick.

    if (xfa.event.newText.match(/[^A-Za-z0-9 ]/))     

    {

    xfa.event.change = "";

    }

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      Anonymous
      November 9, 2010

      I did run into one issue in the fact that I cannot add a space now to allow for City names that have more than one word.  What can I add to allow this space in the field?

      Thank you,

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      Anonymous
      November 9, 2010

      Thank you very much for the quick response to this question.  I used your example and tweaked it just a little to make it allow only alpha characters and then to convert to upper case.  The result that worked was this.

      if

      (xfa.event.newText.match(/[^A-Za-z]/))

      {

      xfa.event.change

      = "";

      }

      xfa.event.change

      = xfa.event.change.toUpperCase();

      Thank you again for your help.

        radzmar
        radzmarAccepted solution
        New Participant
        November 9, 2010

        You can use regular expressions in the change:event of the textfield to limit the characters that can be typed in.

        Will allow only digits and the characters A-Z and a-z

        if (xfa.event.newText.match(/[^A-Za-z0-9]/))      

        {

        xfa.event.change = "";

        }

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