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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/new-to-appian/25869/how-to-validate-url-in-filelocation-field</link><description>Hi , 
 kindly suggest validation for URL. 
 thanks in advance</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101141?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:21:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:768364e1-32b8-4055-880d-427ac5b12302</guid><dc:creator>Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Regex will work like a charm but you can also use code like left(local!URL,8)=&amp;quot;https://&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101140?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:18:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:ae20e032-2711-4460-b1b0-65741b150a51</guid><dc:creator>puneets0004</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;please refer the below regex for validate the URL (Valid or not).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regex = &amp;ldquo;((http|https)://)(www.)?&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+ &amp;ldquo;[a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\\+~#?&amp;amp;//=]{2,256}\\.[a-z]&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+ &amp;ldquo;{2,6}\\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\\+~#?&amp;amp;//=]*)&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101139?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:15:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:31620f9c-93a0-4c5a-88af-0bc5b9a3cab9</guid><dc:creator>Kavitha Thanikanti</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;when the user entering any url it has to be validated. like https://.com format. Have to restrict if the user donot put url format.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101138?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:14:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6da16073-114a-4da0-9d43-1879058665ea</guid><dc:creator>Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What actually do you want to validate?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101137?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:14:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:3a585267-4809-4a4e-abf1-9ebc19dd114f</guid><dc:creator>Kavitha Thanikanti</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;without regex cant we use?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to validate URL in filelocation field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/101135?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:11:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:786d33a2-f06f-47a7-a800-2574a9dc3fb3</guid><dc:creator>Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You can use a regex to validate the syntax of the URL but to check fi the URL is live or not, you might have to use a service.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>