Validate the user input

You can add validation of the user input in textboxes and paragraph boxes. For example, you can make required that the user enters an email address in a certain textbox.

To do this, perform the following:

  1. Click the Edit button of the Textbox or the Paragraph box widgets.

  2. In the lower-right corner, click Advanced button.

  3. Click Model » ValidatorDefinition.

  4. In input field ExpectedFormat, enter one of the following:

    ValuePurpose
    Nonenone by default
    AlphaNumericValidates alphanumeric input
    CurrencyValidates currency
    EmailAddressValidates email addresses
    IntegerValidates integers
    InternetUrlValidates internet URLs
    NonAlphaNumericValidates non-alphanumeric input
    NumericValidates numbers
    PercentageValidates percentages
    USSocialSecurityNumberValidates US social security numbers
    USZipCodeValidates US zip codes
    CustomValidates against custom regular expression
  5. You can also use this section to enter a custom error message.
    For example, if you are validating that the user entered an email address, you can also enter a custom error message in EmailAddressViolationMessage field.

  6. Click Save to return to the Simpleediting mode of the widget.

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