Masking in SAIL

RE: Masking in SAIL

Harsha Sharma — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 05:20:03 GMT

If that is the case you can go with validation of the input as suggested by normanc . To use the regexmatch funtion you need to have this plugin deployed in your environment though.

RE: Masking in SAIL

sswilliams — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:08:42 GMT

Thanks Mike. You are right, I'm referring to 'masking' - enforcing pattern matching.

RE: Masking in SAIL

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:35:40 GMT

I suspect that there is some misunderstanding going on in this thread with respect to terminology, namely "masking".

In Appian, if a field is "masked" that means its input is obscured like a password box.

However I think the question is actually using the term "masking" in reference to enforcing pattern matching - in which case normanc 's answer looks like the likely best fit.

RE: Masking in SAIL

Josh — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:23:17 GMT

Vinay Kumar Rai

As Harsh mentioned in his comment, masking text fields is possible on Appian 16.1 and above.

RE: Masking in SAIL

Vinay Kumar Rai — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:57:04 GMT

Hi,
text masking is not possible in SAIL

RE: Masking in SAIL

normanc — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:34:21 GMT

You can try validating the input using the regexmatch function from https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/regular-expression-functions

In your case this would be:

a!textField(
  value: ri!addr,
  saveInto: ri!addr,
  validations: {
    if(
      fn!regexmatch("^([0-9A-F]{2}:){5}[0-9A-F]{2}$", ri!addr),
      null,
      "Incorrect format"
    )
  }
)

RE: Masking in SAIL

Harsha Sharma — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:30:17 GMT

What version of Appian you are on? If you are on Appian version 16.1 or above you can mask the text field with the parameter 'Masked' to be set to true. For verifying the entry you can use parameter 'validations' to check for correct value.