[rt-users] ValidateCustomFields

[Wolfram Huettermann]

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> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:27:45 +0000
> From: Mike Kennedy<michael.kennedy at ucr.edu>
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> Hello,
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> I've searched the archives, Google, the wiki (so I'm sorry if the answer to this is there, but I just missed it.)
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> Is there any way, short of editing the source, to have more friendly validation errors. So, rather than "Input must match [Mandatory]" I could change it to say "This field is required." Or, instead of "Input must match ^[a-zA-Z]+$", it could say, "Value must contain only letters."
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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Hello Mike,

you can change /Elements/ValidateCustomFields in a plugin  like that that.
The code is like that:


my %Messages = ("[Mandatory]" => "This field is required",
                 "[^[a-zA-Z]+]" => "This field must contain letters");

  foreach my $value( @values ) {
         next if $CF->MatchPattern($value);
         my $msg = exists($Messages{$CF->FriendlyPattern}) 
?$Messages{$CF->FriendlyPattern} :"Input must match".$CF->FriendlyPattern ;
         $m->notes( ('InvalidField-' . $CF->Id) => $msg );
         push @res, $msg;
         $valid = 0;
     }

That does work.