[rt-users] Mandatory Custom Field

[Kenneth Crocker]

Stephen,


	Why does yours have so much code? I just tried adding the '?' at the 
end, in front of the '$' and it still doesn't work. Where would I make a 
change to yours in order to get 4 positions for year?

Kenn
LBNL

On 3/10/2008 11:06 AM, Stephen Turner wrote:
> At Monday 3/10/2008 12:31 PM, Kenneth Crocker wrote:
>> To all,
>>
>>
>>         We have a Custom Field called "Need-By Date". It is applied to 
>> only a
>> few Queues. In order to ensure the format entered is consistent, I put
>> the following "(?#Date)^\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}$" into the Validation field.
>> The result is RT demands an entry as though it is a Mandatory Field. I
>> only wanted the format to be mandatory so that IF it was entered, it
>> would require the desired format. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
>> Thanks ahead of time.
>>
>> Kenn
>> LBNL
> 
> Kenn,
> 
> Here's what we have for an optional date field (MM/DD/YY format):
> 
> '(?#Date-Optional 
> MM/DD/YY)^(((0)?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((0)?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/([12][0-9])?[0-9][0-9])?$', 
> 
> 
> It's the final '?' that makes this optional - without it, the field is 
> mandatory.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Stephen Turner
> Senior Programmer/Analyst - SAIS
> MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
> 
> 
>