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One of ' most powerful and useful features is its ability to automatically ensure that any submitted form generates a set of XML documents that are valid with respect to their corresponding XML schemas. The  application does this by:

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<xsd:simpleType name="emailType">       
          <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">        
                  <xsd:pattern value="[a-zA-Z0-9\-_][a-zA-Z0-9\-\+_]*(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\+_]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}"/>         
          </xsd:restriction>    
</xsd:simpleType>

Phone pattern

Lets say you would like to change the phone control validation from the ' current built-in pattern. Cloud customers must apply Patterns to a text control while in-house customers have two options

  1. Apply patterns to a control - Like other control properties, the pattern property will not need to be redone when you upgrade .
  2. Modify the built-in values in the types.xsd file. Be aware that if you modify the types.xsd file, you will have to make this change each time you perform a  upgrade or apply a  patch.
Apply a Pattern to a Control for a Phone Number

If you are using  Online, you will not have access to types.xsd. Both cloud and in-house customers, can override the pattern in the phone control by setting its pattern property. You can only restrict a built-in pattern (such as the phone control) but not change the pattern via the pattern property. For example you can add the pattern 203-\d{3}-\d{4}.  Now all phone numbers must start with area code 203.

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The Pattern property will not need to be redone when you upgrade .

A pattern such as ##-####-#### or ####-###-### is not a simple restriction. To impose validation against this pattern you must start with a Text control rather than a Phone control

  1. Drag a Text control to your form
  2. Add your pattern to the Text control's pattern property: \d{2}-\d{4}-\d{4} or \d{4}-\d{3}-\d{3}
  3. Change the error message and help properties to assist the user in understanding the required pattern
Modify the types.xsd file

frevvo OEM partners may choose this method when customizing . The built-in values are shown in the image below:

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  1. Stop  if it is running. 
  2. Unpack the frevvo.war file to a temporary location of your choice: e.g. c:\tmp\frevvo-war.
  3. Edit c:\tmp\frevvo-war\WEB-INF\data\users\types.xsd,
  4. Change the element phoneType as shown in the code block below: Save the changes to the types.xsd file. 
  5. Rezip all the files in the c:\tmp\frevvo-war directory, even the ones you did not edit.

  6. Zip will often give your zipfile a .zip extension. Make sure you change this to a .war extension. 

  7. Copy the updated frevvo.war file to <frevvo installdir>/tomcat/webapps.
  8. Restart your  form server. Now all your phone controls will validate against this pattern.

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<xsd:simpleType name="phoneType">     
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">         
        <xsd:pattern value="\d{2}-\d{4}-\d{4}"/>         
        <xsd:pattern value="\d{4}-\d{3}-\d{3}"/>
    </xsd:restriction> 
</xsd:simpleType>

If you are using  Online, you will not have access to types.xsd. You can override the pattern in the phone control by setting its pattern property. You can only restrict a built-in pattern (such as the phone control) but not change the pattern via the pattern property. For example you can add the pattern 203-\d{3}-\d{4}.  Now all phone numbers must start with area code 203.

A pattern such as ##-####-#### or ####-###-### is not a simple restriction. To impose validation against this pattern you must start with a Text control rather than a Phone control

  1. Drag a Text control to your form
  2. Add your pattern to the Text control's pattern property: \d{2}-\d{4}-\d{4} or \d{4}-\d{3}-\d{3}
  3. Change the error message and help properties to assist the user in understanding the required pattern

 

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