No space validation in text field.

Hello Technical Team, 

You have a good example of how to Add field validation on the link below: 

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_12.0/Cookbook/Adding_Field_Validation_to_the_Record_View/index.html#Method_1_Extending_the_RecordView_and_CreateView_Controllers

Please look and let us know if this approach works for you.

I hope this helps,  

André

Thanks Andre for your help.

I have review the above guide, it has only example for require values.

actually i need to give validation, if any custom fields values has white spacing then record unable to save and system give the error message. 

could you please suggest me regarding above

Hi Technical Team, 


Following the tutorial previously shared, you can have a working example with these steps: 

1 - Created a new field in Studio to add the validation, on my test I've named it testfield and added it to the record view 

https://www.screencast.com/t/gaJk4hIh

2 - Create a custom error message label file: 

Extension/application/Ext/Language/en_us.nospace_error_message.php

<?php

$app_strings['ERROR_NOSPACE_MESSAGE'] = 'Please remove empty spaces';

3 - Extend the CreateView controller to add the validation by creating the file 

custom/modules/Accounts/clients/base/views/create/create.js

({
    extendsFrom: 'CreateView',
    initialize: function (options) {

        this._super('initialize', [options]);

    //add custom message key
        app.error.errorName2Keys['nospace_message'] = 'ERROR_NOSPACE_MESSAGE';

            //add validation tasks
        this.model.addValidationTask('check_testfield_spaces', _.bind(this._doValidateTestFieldSpaces, this));

    },

        _doValidateTestFieldSpaces: function(fields, errors, callback) {
        // Validate testfield for spaces
        const testfield_c = this.model.get('testfield_c');
        if (testfield_c.includes(' ')) {

        errors['testfield_c'] = errors['testfield_c'] || {};
        errors['testfield_c'].nospace_message = true;

        }


        callback(null, fields, errors);
    },
})

4 - Extend the RecordView controller to add the validation by creating the file 

custom/modules/Accounts/clients/base/views/record/record.js

({
    /* because 'accounts' already has a record view, we need to extend it */
         extendsFrom: 'AccountsRecordView',
         initialize: function (options) {

        this._super('initialize', [options]);

    //add custom message key
        app.error.errorName2Keys['nospace_message'] = 'ERROR_NOSPACE_MESSAGE';

            //add validation tasks
        this.model.addValidationTask('check_testfield_spaces', _.bind(this._doValidateTestFieldSpaces, this));

    },

        _doValidateTestFieldSpaces: function(fields, errors, callback) {
        // Validate testfield for spaces
        const testfield_c = this.model.get('testfield_c');
        if (testfield_c.includes(' ')) {

        errors['testfield_c'] = errors['testfield_c'] || {};
        errors['testfield_c'].nospace_message = true;

        }


        callback(null, fields, errors);
    },
})

5 - Run a quick repair and rebuild. 

After this, the validation should work like this: 

Can you give it a try to see if this matches your requirement? 

I hope this helps. 

André

Hi Andre,

i need to add one more condition on the above code (no space allow code)  i need to add the condition that only numbers are allowed in the same text field, i have tried diff diff. code but i have not yet achieve the possible solution, could you please help me

Hi Technical Team, 

You could do this by adding another message and another condition to your validation: 

Take the create.js as an example: 

custom/modules/Accounts/clients/base/views/create/create.js

({
    /* because 'accounts' already has a record view, we need to extend it */
         extendsFrom: 'CreateView',
         initialize: function (options) {

        this._super('initialize', [options]);

         //add custom message key
        app.error.errorName2Keys['nospace_message'] = 'ERROR_NOSPACE_MESSAGE';
        app.error.errorName2Keys['numbers_message'] = 'ERROR_NUMBERS_MESSAGE';

         //add validation tasks
        this.model.addValidationTask('check_testfield_spaces', _.bind(this._doValidateTestFieldSpaces, this));

    },

        _doValidateTestFieldSpaces: function(fields, errors, callback) {
        // Validate testfield for spaces
        const testfield_c = this.model.get('testfield_c');
        if (testfield_c.includes(' ')) {

        errors['testfield_c'] = errors['testfield_c'] || {};
        errors['testfield_c'].nospace_message = true;

        }
        // Validate testfield for numbers
        
        if (!/^\d+$/.test(testfield_c)){ 
            errors['testfield_c'] = errors['testfield_c'] || {};
            errors['testfield_c'].numbers_message = true;
        }


        callback(null, fields, errors);
    },
})

Thank you Andre, it is working fine

Thank you Andre, it is working fine