Form Entry Field Validation

[ianburgess]

I have a password entry field (USE:Password) on a form and need to enforce that it is a minimum of 6 characters long and with at least 1 number and one letter. Can anyone suggest what code and where to embed in order to enforce and pop up a message and not allow saving if criteria not met?

Thanks

Ian

[Bruce]

Hi Ian,

the code itself should be simple enough.

as to embed point, put it in the
validateValue::fieldname routine
have a look at the generated code as to what to do if the validation fails.
(setting the field to say "required" will generate some sample validation code for you.)

cheers
Bruce

[ianburgess]

Ok thanks for that - I can now see what the "Required" code is doing and can create my own code embedded after that to do my own validation:

e.g.
IF LEN(CLIP(USE:Password)) <6
  loc:Invalid = 'USE:Password'
  USE:Password:IsInvalid = true
  loc:alert = 'Password must be at least 6 characters long'
.

[Bruce]

exactly.

(Incidentally it's considered "better" to write "end" rather than "." at the end of a loop.
The . syntax is soooo 20th century.

Cheers
Bruce